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The Most Dangerous Art
Lexington Books 2007; US$ 32.99The book shows how three of Russia's most important twentieth century poets used autobiographical prose to defend poetry and the poet in an era when poetry was under attack. It juxtaposes these autobiographies with each other and with the culturo-political events that followed Russia's 1917 October Revolution in a way that has never previously been... more...
Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 51.95This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. more...
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 20.00Clarence 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... more...
Other Russias
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns. more...
A History of Russian Symbolism
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 68.00This is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. more...
Nabokov and his Fiction
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Eleven leading scholars offer original essays on Nabokov and his fiction. more...
Invitation to a Beheading
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical... more...
If There is Something to Desire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.95I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards. Such is the elegant simplicity?a whole poem in ten words, vibrating with image and emotion?of the best-selling Russian poet Vera Pavlova. The one hundred poems in this book, her first full-length volume in English, all have the same salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as... more...
Dead Souls
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00Since 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... more...
The Grand Inquisitor
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableVividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suffering, human nature and free will. Included here too are Dostoyevsky?s powerful and disturbing writings about his time in exile at a Siberian prison... more...









