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  • The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

    This is the best translated and largest edition of poetry by the Czechs' only Nobel Prize–winning writer, Jaroslav Seifert (he won the prize in 1984 and died in 1986). The poetry is surprising in its simplicity, sensual, thoughtful, moving and comic in turns. Author Milan Kundera has called this collection “the tangible expression of the nation’s genius.” The Nobel Committee stated that Seifert's ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Russia

    Volume Three

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in English in 1967, The Spirit of Russia by Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, edited by George Gibian, is a profound exploration of Russian thought, literature, and culture. This work examines the philosophies and ideologies of key Russian writers, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others, while delving into themes such as nationalism, nihilism, and Russia's relationship with Europe. ... Read more

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  • The Rebel

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  • The End of Days

    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
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  • Dostoevsky

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    by Joseph Frank ...
    Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's ... Read more

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  • Russian Thinkers

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and ... Read more

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  • The Icon and Axe

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    Translated by Judith Landry ...
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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

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  • What Nietzsche Really Said

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