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Between Religion and Rationality
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 65.00In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the distinctions of the Russian novel as well as the conflicts between the religious peasant world and the educated Russian elite, Between Religion and Rationality... more...
Lost and Found
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 50.40Aura Paulauskienes book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect.... more...
The Gospel in Brief
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 10.99The greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in Brief ?Leo Tolstoy?s riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative. Virtually unknown to English readers until now, Dustin Condren?s groundbreaking translation from the Russian opens a precious... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 18.00An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama. more...
The Possessed
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 15.99One of The Economist ?s 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED?ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!?TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman?s first article (in the journal n+1 ) will ever forget it. ?Babel in California? told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford... more...
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
Pan Macmillan Australia 2007; US$ 15.18Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novel's golden age. Fathers and Sons and A Hunter's Notes caused sensations when they were published; by depicting serfs as human beings, the latter was said to have persuaded the Tsar to free them. Turgenev's private life was, perhaps, as... more...
The Poetic Imagination of Vyacheslav Ivanov
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 32.00Pamela Davidson explores Ivanov's poetic method, relating his art to his central beliefs. more...
National Identity in Russian Culture
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00This study explores aspects of national identity in Russian culture from medieval times to the present day. more...
Gender and Russian Literature
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 34.00A 1996 overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, from 1600 onwards. more...
The Great War in Russian Memory
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 33.95Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military... more...









