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  • Chekhov: The Essential Playsby Michael Heim; Anton Chekhov

    Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 4.99

    Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...

  • Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Worksby Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen; Caryl Emerson

    Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 8.95

    James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. - ;'The people are silent'. So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations... more...

  • Miss Julie and Other Playsby Johan August Strindberg; Michael Robinson

    OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 9.85

    The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.'Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European dramafollowing his return to the theatre... more...

  • Routledge Companion to Russian Literatureby Neil Cornwell

    Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95

    An engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years covering the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and exploring all the forms that have made it so famous. more...

  • Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two-by Daniel Gerould; Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

    Routledge 2001; US$ 100.00

    This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. more...

  • Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramasby Timothy C. Westphalen

    Routledge 2002; US$ 120.00

    Aleksandr Blok gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksnadr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. more...

  • Dostoevsky's Notes from Undergroundby James L. Roberts

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1970; US$ 5.99

    "I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , published in 1864, marks a turning point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment , The Idiot , and The Brothers Karamazov. more...

  • Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Ageby Stephen Hutchings

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 39.95

    This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era. more...

  • Turgenev's Fathers and Sonsby Denis M. Calandra

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1966; US$ 5.99

    The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Fathers and Sons explores the social pressures and conflicts of mid-nineteenth-century Russia . When first published, the novel stirred terrific uproar, from conservatives and liberals alike. Follow the story of a nihilist as the novel’s central figure, a person who “examines everything from a critical point of view . . . a person who does not bow to any authorities; who doesn’t accept any principle on faith, no matter how hallowed and how venerated the principle is.” This concise supplement to Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s book about conflicts between generations... more...

  • Turgenev and the Context of English Literature 1850-1900by Glyn Turton

    Routledge 1992; US$ 150.00

    Examines the cultural outlook in the Anglo-Saxon world, in this period, through an analysis of the reception of Turgenev's work in translation in a number of writers including Henry James and George Gissing. more...