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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
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Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...
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The last and greatest of Dostoevsky's novels, The Brothers Karamazov is a towering masterpiece of literature, philosophy, psychology, and religion. It tells the story of intellectual Ivan, sensual Dmitri, and idealistic Alyosha Karamazov, who collide in the wake of their despicable father's brutal murder. Into the framework of the story Dostoevsky poured all of his deepest concerns -- the origin of evil, the nature of freedom, the craving for meaning...
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"...not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle'
- Leo Tolstoy
Striking a balance between philosophical discussion and compelling story-telling, War and Peace transcends the restrictions that Tolstoy perceived in the conventional novel.
Set in Russia during the Napoleonic era, this epic novel follows the fortunes of five aristocratic Russian families over the course of the French invasion. Tolstoy's timeless portrayal...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987, c1967
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1st Evergreen ed.
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xii, 402 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves...
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"Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Children is a masterpiece not only of the nineteenth century but of the whole of Russian literature, a book full to bursting with life. It is a novel about the relations between the young and the old, about love, families, politics, religion, about strong beliefs and heated disagreements, illness and death. It is about the clash between liberals and conservatives, revolutionaries and reactionaries. At the time of its publication...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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First edition.
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xliii, 331 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The Unwomanly Face of War is the long-awaited English translation of Svetlana Alexievich's first book, a groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia. Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women - more than a million in total - were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners and snipers. They...
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Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 1
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
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1st ed.
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244 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Ernst Fandorin, a young detective with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police in 1876, is forced to unravel a complicated web of events when his inquiry into the suicide of a talented student in a public park reveals links to a murder, an orphanage, and a worldwide terrorist conspiracy.
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Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2004
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xli, 548 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia....
10) Telluria
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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335 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however, travel everywhere...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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First U.S. edition.
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xiv, 470 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism."--...
12) Beanpole
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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xviii, 667 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Collection of diaries and correspondence between the members of the Russian royal family and their closest friends, from the 1880s to the time of their deaths in 1918.
14) Stalingrad
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xxix, 1053 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to...
15) Forty stories
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991, c1963
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xxxvii, 344 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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232 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring--and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death--a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind *Manufactured Landscapes* and *Watermark* and is narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the...
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