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  • The Essential Russian Plays & Short Stories

    Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol & Others (Including Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists)

    by Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin ...
    Translated by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett ...
    'The Essential Russian Plays & Short Stories' is a masterful anthology that traverses the vast landscape of Russian literature, capturing its profound intellectual and emotional depth. With works ranging from poignant plays to intricate short stories, this collection highlights Russia's unique literary evolution from the 19th century to the early 20th century. The diversity in narrative styles and ... Read more

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  • THE GREAT RUSSIAN PLAYS & SHORT STORIES

    by Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin, William Lyon Phelps ...
    Translated by Thomas Seltzer ...
    THE GREAT RUSSIAN PLAYS & SHORT STORIES encompasses an array of profound themes and literary styles, showcasing the tumultuous soul and complex social landscapes of Russia from the 19th to early 20th centuries. This anthology not only provides a breathtaking exploration of human emotions and philosophical depths found in Russian literature but also reflects the stylistic diversity that ... Read more

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  • The Outcasts and Other Stories

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series series
    In addition to The Outcasts, this book includes Gorky's stories Waiting for the Ferry and The Affair of the Clasps. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was one of the greatest Russian writers. He inherited the best traditions of 19th century classical Russian literat This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... Read more

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  • Childhood

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Gorky ...
    The book begins with a corpse on a floor, described by a small boy who does not yet know what he is looking at. His father lies dressed in white, copper coins on his eyes. His mother kneels in a red skirt, combing back the dead man's hair "with the black comb I had used as a saw to cut through the rind of watermelons".The comb tells you what kind of writer this is. A boy of four does not register ... Read more

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  • The Lower Depths

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    The Lower Depths portrays a hideous and filthy lodging house, where gather such social derelicts as a thief, a gambler, an ex-artist, an ex-aristocrat, and a prostitute.All of them had at one time an ambition, a goal, but because of their lack of will and the injustice and cruelty of the world, they were forced into the depths and cast back whenever they attempted to rise.No stronger indictment ... Read more

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  • Best Russian Short Stories (Annotated and Well-formatted)

    A Compilation

    by Thomas Seltzer, A.S. Pushkin, A.P. Checkov, F.M. Dostoyevsky, M. Gorky, I.S. Turgenev, Tomasz Goetel (Editor), L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin ...
    Russian literature in the short story form, penned by the masters.A unique edition: beautifully formatted with optimized, easy-to-read fonts; annotated with additional content; includes a functional Table of Contents. Contains the following stories: THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. Pushkin THE CLOAK N.V. Gogol THE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. Turgenev THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. Dostoyevsky< ... Read more

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  • Creatures That Once Were Men

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    First published in 1918, "Creatures That Once Were Men" is a collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author Maxim Gorky, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.Gorky wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian ... Read more

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  • Creatures that Once Were Men and Other Stories

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Collection of stories, including Creatures that Once Were Men, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, Chelkash, My Fellow-Traveler, and On a Raft. According to Wikipedia: "Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( 1868 ?- 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, ... Read more

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  • Mother

    A Factory Woman Joins Her Son's Revolution

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin and Eduard Hildebrandt. A factory woman in a Russian mill town watches her son become a revolutionary and, after he is taken, takes up the work herself. Gorky wrote it in America in 1906 while raising money for the movement; Lenin called it a very timely book, and it became the model for a whole official literature that ... Read more

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  • The Best of Russian Literature

    A Panorama of Russian Classics: Realism, Satire, Psychological Fiction, and Social Conscience

    by Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin ...
    Translated by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett ...
    The Best of Russian Literature surveys a century of artistic experimentation and moral inquiry, bringing together lyricism, realism, satire, psychological drama, social reportage, and proto-modernist unease. From compact tales of bureaucratic absurdity and provincial life to searching studies of faith, violence, poverty, desire, and conscience, the volume reveals Russian literature's exceptional ... Read more

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  • The Russian Masters: Works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev and More

    Short Stories, Plays, Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists

    by Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin ...
    Translated by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett ...
    The Russian Masters: Works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev and More' serves as a landmark anthology, encapsulating the towering genius and variegated styles of Russian literature. From the piercing psychological depth of Dostoevsky to the elegant narrative poise of Turgenev, and the profound philosophical reflections of Tolstoy, this collection traverses an extraordinary ... Read more

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  • The Mother

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    A book of the utmost importance"", in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother - here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English translation in almost a century - will enchant modern readers both for its historical significance and its intrinsic value as a work of art. Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD