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Essential Stories eBook Series

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  • Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

    Essential Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series Book 12 - Essential Stories
    A new selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris DralyukIsaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence.These stories take us from ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • Doctor Zhivago

    by Boris Pasternak ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage International
    First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Master and Margarita

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    Series series Alma Classics Evergreen
    Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman a professor of black magic arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil’s mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master a man who has turned his ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Doctor Zhivago

    by Pasternak Boris ...
    In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the great events of politics and war that eventually destroy him and millions of others, Zhivago clings to the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Journey into the Whirlwind

    The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

    by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg ...
    A woman's true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: "Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beauties

    Essential Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Nicholas Slater Pasternak ...
    Series Book 1 - Pushkin Press Classics
    This beautiful collection of 13 classic Chekhov short stories is the perfect introduction to an icon of Russian literature.“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” —Raymond ChandlerWithout doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Fixer

    A Novel

    by Bernard Malamud ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Odessa Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A collection of “electric, heroically wrought” Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukraine—for fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike)Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel—a Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessa—uncover its tough underbelly around the time of the Russian Revolution. Gangsters, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Red Cavalry

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Based on Babel's own diaries that he wrote during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, Red Cavalry is a lyrical, unflinching and often startlingly ironic depiction of the violence and horrors of war. A classic of modern fiction, the short stories are as powerful today as they were when they burst onto the Russian literary landscape nearly a century ago. The narrator, a Russian-Jewish intellectual, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Memories

    From Moscow to the Black Sea

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg ...
    A beloved 20th century writer’s painful and humorous memoir of leaving her home in post-revolutionary Russia forever, written with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm“Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi’s world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave”—Claire Kohda Hazelton, The GuardianConsidered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

    by Various, Clarence Brown ...
    Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia.It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD