Russian Books


Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Best Price: $3.00
I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina...
The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov
Best Price: $10.15
At the beginning of my freshman year at college, a girl told me to read this book, it would...
War and PeaceWar and Peace
Best Price: $21.49
War and Peace is, without question, the greatest historical novel ever written. However, if...
The Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita
Best Price: $7.58
My boyfriend and read it toghether and i got addicted to it since page 1! what a book! Its very...
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
Best Price: $6.99
What can be added to what has already been celebrated about this book? I'm only embarrassed to...


The Collected Tales of Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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The book has 2 parts: the ukrainian folklore stories - witches, devils, ogres and what not -...
Heart of a DogHeart of a Dog
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If perused only ephemerally, or taken merely at face value, Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Heart...
Cancer WardCancer Ward
Best Price: $10.00
No one writes a fat, sprawling, old-fashioned Russian novel quite like a Russian. To the ranks...
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other StoriesThe Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
Best Price: $3.24
Tolstoy's brief novella 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' is one of the most compact and brilliant...
The Night Watch (Watch, Book 1)The Night Watch (Watch, Book 1)
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I picked up this book because I always wanted to get into a literary anthology (a'la Lord of the...


Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
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Here I am not going to be quite so bold nor so presumptuous as to think that I have anything new...
War And Peace (Signet Classics)War And Peace (Signet Classics)
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I'm suprised not to see anyone mention Rosemary Edmonds' translation of this masterful work. ...
War and Peace (Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition)War and Peace (Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $10.00
There can be no doubt that this is one of the greatest novels of all time. It envelopes you...
Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
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This was certainly not what I expected... what was I expecting? Heck if I know, but it...
A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.34
Having bought this book mainly as something to read while travelling I found it to be not only a...

Doctor ZhivagoDoctor Zhivago
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I've never been to Russia, but poet Boris Pasternak made me feel as if I could see with my very...
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
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According to many critics, Tolstoy (1828 to 1910) is viewed as one of the greatest novelists of...
We (Modern Library Classics)We (Modern Library Classics)
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The prototype directly or indirectly, acknowledged or unacknowledged of many a subsequent sci-fi...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
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Coming to this, I was already familiar with Pushkin -- both from his short story "Queen of...
Rabelais and His WorldRabelais and His World
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This is simply the best analysis of the "Carnivalesque" and is a valuable preface to...

Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)
Best Price: $7.70
Knowing that I love a good mystery and enjoy all things Russian, a friend gave me Special...
Invitation to a BeheadingInvitation to a Beheading
Best Price: $6.95
The musings of Kafka and other Eastern European writers are among my favorite. Though Nabokov...
Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Best Price: $12.28
Dostoevsky has crafted a monolithic work of literature in every respect here. This book...
The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $13.79
The everyman library edition has very small font. It is a pain to read it.
Notes From Underground, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)Notes From Underground, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $7.94
The underground man is the best-developed character I have come across. A reader can take what...

Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk: A Novel (Mortalis)Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk: A Novel (Mortalis)
Best Price: $7.39
Boris Akunin first made a name for himself in the West with his Erast Fandorin series of...
Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions)Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
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I've been using this text in my Chekhov/Stanislavski class for the past 10 years and the...
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination)Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination)
Best Price: $16.21
Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the...
White GuardWhite Guard
Best Price: $16.91
This was an excellent Russian novel set in 1918 Kiev. It follows the Turbins, a Tsarist middle...
Crime and Punishment (Cliffs Notes)Crime and Punishment (Cliffs Notes)
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I read this the day before my mid-term in a college Literature course where we had read...

An Anthology Of Russian Literature From Earliest Writings To Modern Fiction: Introduction To A CultureAn Anthology Of Russian Literature From Earliest Writings To Modern Fiction: Introduction To A Culture
Best Price: $32.50
I really like this anthology. This book contains many of the greatest works in Russian...
Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.93
I know that Tolstoy was a genius and a talented author. However, this story seemed quite bland...
The Three SistersThe Three Sisters
Best Price: $7.25
I recently went to a reading of this play by a theatre group here in Philadelphia that I really...
The Winter Queen: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)The Winter Queen: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)
Best Price: $4.49
I had been really excited about reading "The Winter Queen" for three main reasons: I...
Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye StikhiPoems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi
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This is a excellent selection of poems by the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. The...

Sister Pelagia and the White BulldogSister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Best Price: $5.40
Four and a half stars. Boris Akunin has set off a new path with 'Sister Pelagia and the White...
The Death of Achilles: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mystery)The Death of Achilles: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mystery)
Best Price: $6.45
Erast Fandorin's return to Moscow is marred by the death of his war-hero friend, The White...
The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to SolzhenitsynThe Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Best Price: $17.88
The Magical Chorus is not only a fierce and fearsome look at a century and a half of Russian...
Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.93
I know that Tolstoy was a genius and a talented author. However, this story seemed quite bland...
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.21
Finally, a book for sale, easily bought which has Gogol's great play, The Government Inspector!...

The DefenseThe Defense
Best Price: $5.09
This... is the worst book... on anything... I have ever read!!! I thought this through and...
The Double and The GamblerThe Double and The Gambler
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this product is designed for many reasons, but most likely (once the "Code" is broken)...
Envy (New York Review Books Classics)Envy (New York Review Books Classics)
Best Price: $4.96
I was surprised to read several overenthusiastic reviews on this page - I think the book...
Moscow to the End of the LineMoscow to the End of the Line
Best Price: $12.49
The protagonist of the novel is an excellently developed alcoholic character. The thoughts and...
The Twelve Chairs (European Classics)The Twelve Chairs (European Classics)
Best Price: $11.50
Ho-ho. I have changed my mind about this ghastly translation (it's the only one), Just imagine!...

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in ExileSolzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
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Pearce's biography of A.I. Solzhenitsyn may leave off the man's rougher edges, but manages to...
First Love (Penguin Great Loves)First Love (Penguin Great Loves)
Best Price: $3.61
This book is good, with language anyone can understand and a story that is interesting from the...
Red CavalryRed Cavalry
Best Price: $6.75
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the...
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)
Best Price: $15.00
Bakhtin's "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics" remains an essential critical writing to...
Stories From Today's RussiaStories From Today's Russia
Best Price: $3.82
These stories are fun and help you learn to read Russian, without being too difficult. There is...

August 1914August 1914
Best Price: $38.18
Prior to reading this book, I had never read anything by and heard very little about Aleksandr...
Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)
Best Price: $15.31
Better than the Brothers K. but you must get past the first 200 pages, which can be confusing.
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of HistoryThe Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Best Price: $3.93
The fox looks every which way when he runs across the fields, but the hedgehog focuses almost...
Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about MayakovskyNight Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
Best Price: $15.95
I'm in tears after reading this book. Tears of gratefulness for having experienced something so...
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Best Price: $6.25
I just purchased and received this product from Amazon and am not quite certain it is the...

The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $12.52
The classy look of the hardback cover is just perfect for the treasures inside the book. Thanks!
    
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