Жанр "Классическая отечественная проза на англ. языке"

Tragedy did not wither her: it crowned her with majesty... Her life, in Keats's phrase, became 'a continual allegory', its...

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he...

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri...

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early...

A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and...

When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the...

Alexei Ivanovich is tutor to a Russian family in a German spa town. They are bankrupt and eagerly awaiting the death of their...

Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918,...

'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in...

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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and,...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and...

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's...

Anna opened the carriage and stepped down onto the platform. The wind and snow swirled around her and she took a deep breath of...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years...

Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his...

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The...

In this stunning final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an...

This title is translated, annotated and introduced by Gillon Aitken. Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's...

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too …'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a...

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant faade of the imperial capital...

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle...

Two small masterpieces in one volume. First, The Double, a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare that foreshadows Kafka and...

Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag...

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist...

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life -...

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have...