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  • Stalin and His Hangmen

    The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

    de Donald Rayfield ...
    Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top of this pyramid of terror sat five indispensable hangmen who presided over the various ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Sketches of the Criminal World

    Further Kolyma Stories

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dead Souls

    de Nikolai Gogol ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on paper. What can he have up his sleeve, the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov

    de Nikolai Leskov ...
    Traducido por Robert Chandler, Donald Rayfield, William Edgerton ...
    A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller," in which ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Smoke

    de Ivan Turgenev ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    A young Russian man, engaged to be married, encounters his former love in a German spa town and is soon enmeshed in a torturous romantic tangle in this graceful, politically tinged love story by a Russian literary great.Ivan Turgenev's fifth novel, Smoke, caused a furor when it was published in 1867. Tolstoy claimed that his fellow writer loved only fornication, not his country; the poet Tiutchev ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

    de Anton Chekhov ...
    Traducido por Ronald Wilks ...
    This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power; 'The Kiss' ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Manaschi

    de Hamid Ismailov ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    Finalist, Prix Jan Michalski de Littérature 2023 Shortlisted, EBRD Literature Prize 2022 In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the interaction between tradition and modernity, myth and reality. A radio presenter interprets one of his dreams as an initiation by the world of spirits into the role of a Manaschi, a Kyrgyz bard and shaman who recites and performs the epic poem, Manas, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Kolyma Stories

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation“One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times).Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • ‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’

    The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate

    de Donald Rayfield ...
    The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield shows that this misunderstood and much-feared nation was in fact a flourishing state with a vibrant literary culture, religious tolerance, a sophisticated ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Dead Souls

    de Nikolai Gogol ...
    Presented here in a brand-new translation, Dead Souls is one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Edge of Empires

    A History of Georgia

    de Donald Rayfield ...
    Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today’s Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Eminent historian Donald Rayfield redresses this balance in Edge of Empires, focusing not merely on the post-Soviet era, like many other books on Georgia, but ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Anton Chekhov

    A Life

    de Donald Rayfield ...
    The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts with the huge advantage of much new material that was prudishly suppressed under the Soviet regime, or ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro