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Assigned to spy on the lifestyle of a wealthy bureaucrat by the name of Orlov, a man becomes enthralled in a life of riches he has been instructed to oppose.
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847492784, titled "Story of a Nobody" | Alma Books, December 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Story of a Nobody, The Story of a Nobody
9781843910039 | Hesperus Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Assigned to spy on the lifestyle of a wealthy bureaucrat by the name of Orlov, a man becomes enthralled in a life of riches he has been instructed to oppose.

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By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847492784, titled "Story of a Nobody" | Alma Books, December 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Story of a Nobody, The Story of a Nobody

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A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary nobodyA" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.
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9781847492784, titled "Story of a Nobody" | Alma Books, December 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Story of a Nobody, The Story of a Nobody
9781847491893 | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him.

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Product Description: A lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers in a lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relations In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847492180 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers in a lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relations In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece.

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Product Description: One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by the author of War and Peace is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans) and Leo Tolstoy
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9781847491916 | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by the author of War and Peace is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process.

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Product Description: One of the most accessible and entertaining works by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Karamazov Brothers Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, this tale is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847492067 | Tra rev edition (Trafalgar Square, April 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of the most accessible and entertaining works by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Karamazov Brothers Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, this tale is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich.

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Product Description: Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, this book brings to the fore the underclass of St...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847491909 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, this book brings to the fore the underclass of St.

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Product Description: An entertaining parody of small-town manners and morals, this comic novella is a revelation When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K., arrives in the town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a doyenne of local society life, takes him under her protection, with the aim of engineering his marriage with her 23 year old daughter Zina...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781843912088 | Hesperus Pr, February 1, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An entertaining parody of small-town manners and morals, this comic novella is a revelation When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K.

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Product Description: The title story of this enthralling compilation spins the tale of a boy growing into adolescence whose body appears to have been taken over by a colony of ants. His diary—initially expressed in the barely literate tones of a young child—becomes more accomplished and assured as the protagonist matures and eventually begins to give way to the voice of the ruler of the anthill...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781843917144 | Hesperus Pr, January 1, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The title story of this enthralling compilation spins the tale of a boy growing into adolescence whose body appears to have been taken over by a colony of ants.

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Product Description: A bizarre and deeply disturbing account of a young man’s descent into addiction, this story brilliantly mirrors the tumultuous events of early 20th-century Russian history. Struggling with the confusion and insecurities that adolescence brings, Vadim seeks an outlet for his frustration...read more
By M. Ageyev and Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781843914327 | Hesperus Pr, August 15, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A bizarre and deeply disturbing account of a young man’s descent into addiction, this story brilliantly mirrors the tumultuous events of early 20th-century Russian history.

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Product Description: Set during the 1905 Revolution in southwest Russia, this is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of the lives of two peasant brothers, “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human.” With brutal honesty it reveals the pettiness, violence, and ignorance of rural farm life...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847491046 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Set during the 1905 Revolution in southwest Russia, this is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of the lives of two peasant brothers, “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human.

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Product Description: One of the great achievements of 20th-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues—the culmination of a life’s work of unrelenting challenge to Soviet dogma—took Bunin’s poetic mastery of language, eventually known for its richness as "Bunin brocade," to new heights...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847490476 | Trafalgar Square, October 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One of the great achievements of 20th-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues—the culmination of a life’s work of unrelenting challenge to Soviet dogma—took Bunin’s poetic mastery of language, eventually known for its richness as "Bunin brocade," to new heights.

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As a mysterious gentleman and self-proclaimed magician arrives in Moscow, followed by a most bizarre retinue of servants, the Russian literary world is shaken to its foundations. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil, and that he has come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of the disbelieving capital.
By Hugh Aplin (trans)
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9781847490148 | Trafalgar Square, June 15, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: As a mysterious gentleman and self-proclaimed magician arrives in Moscow, followed by a most bizarre retinue of servants, the Russian literary world is shaken to its foundations.

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Product Description: From one of the world's greatest prose writers, this is a remarkable psychological novel examining the duality of the human consciousness. Velchaninov, a rich and idle man undergoing a moral crisis, is confronted in St. Petersburg by Trusotsky, the loyal husband of Velchaninov’s former lover...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans), Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Andrew Miller (foreword by)
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9781843911630 | Hesperus Pr, December 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From one of the world's greatest prose writers, this is a remarkable psychological novel examining the duality of the human consciousness.

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Vanya Smurov is deeply attached to his mentor, Dr Stroop. Initially appalled by the discovery of Stroop's homosexual leanings, Vanya abandons him to pursue a 'normal' existence. In turn disgusted by ensuing encounters, he returns to Dr Stroop and accompanies him to Italy where he begins his real education: in the world of art and of hedonism.
By Hugh Aplin (trans) and Mikhail Kuzmin
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9781843914310 | Hesperus Pr, September 28, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Vanya Smurov is deeply attached to his mentor, Dr Stroop.

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Product Description: An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly—and fatefully—out of control. Quite by chance, Professor Persikov discovers a new form of light ray whose effect, when directed at living cells, is to accelerate growth in primitive organisms...read more
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9781843914112 | Reprint edition (Hesperus Pr, August 30, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly—and fatefully—out of control.

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By Hugh Aplin (trans) and Leo Tolstoy
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9781843911272 | Hesperus Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: This new translation of a key work by one of the greatest Russian satirists is particularly topical to the current debates on genetic modification. An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly - and fatefully - out of control...read more
By Hugh Aplin (trans), Mikhail Bulgakov and Doris May Lessing (introduced by)
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9781843910633 | Hesperus Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: This new translation of a key work by one of the greatest Russian satirists is particularly topical to the current debates on genetic modification.

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