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  • Little Apples

    And Other Early Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    A rediscovery of largely unknown early Chekhov stories.In the follow-up to his National Translation Award-winning collection The Undiscovered Chekhov, translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us more little-known work from the legendary author’s early days as a magazine writer, pseudonymously turning out pieces for magazines read by Russia’s small middle class. These stories are fresh, yet ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Chekhov's Letters

    Biography, Context, Poetics

    by Carol Apollonio, Radislav Lapushin, Rosamund Bartlett, Liya Bushkanets, Alexander Chudakov, Svetlana Evdokimova, Michael Finke, Elizabeth Geballe, Irina Gitovich0, Elena Gorokhova1, Serge Gregory2, Vladimir Kataev3, Alevtina Kuzicheva4, Vladimir Lakshin5, Matthew Mangold6, Zinovy Paperny7, Emma Polotskaya8, Dina Rubina9, Galina Rylkova0, Igor Sukhikh1, Caryl Emerson2, Sharon M. Carnicke3, John Douglas Clayton4, Robert Louis Jackson5, Robin Feuer Miller6, Katherine T. O'Connor7, Cathy Popkin8 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Essays on Anton P. Chekhov

    Close Readings

    by Robert Louis Jackson ...
    Series series Ars Rossica
    This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time. The volume offers a series of “slow” readings that yield insight after exquisite insight. They also model fruitful ways of discerning the ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Gentleman in Moscow

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    by Amor Towles ...
    **The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.Considered the greatest short story writer, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Winter Queen

    by Boris Akunin ...
    Translated by Andrew Bromfield ...
    Series Book 4 - Erast Fandorin
    Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of ... Read more

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  • Dead Souls

    A Novel

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Leo Tolstoy’s harrowing tale about a man battling a mysterious illness who must confront his impending death, the pitfalls of redemption, and the meaning of life itself.Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • About Love and Other Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Rosamund Bartlett ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Read more

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  • Forty Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Robert Payne ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. ... Read more

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  • The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary BingIn Anton Chekhov’s The Duelthe escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of ... Read more

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