Product Description: Six Russian peasant stories retold from the versions of folklorist and storyteller Andrey Platonov.

Product Description: The greatest woman poet of antiquity, Sappho wrote love poems full of passion and grace.

Product Description: After a lifetime of persecution Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) has emerged as one of the greatest Russian writers of the century, an artist of profound genius, integrity, and clarity of vision. His distinctive writing style has long defied translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Platonov vividly presents the dreams of thebuilders of socialism in all their inarticulate confusion,with a sympathy not lessened by an unaparalleled awarenessof their tragic consequences.Through incongruity of verbal choices and juxtapositionsPlatonov expanded the limits of meaning and lent words newand unexpected dimensions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this title introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. It chronicles the dramatic changes felt throughout Central Asia in the early twentieth century.

Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin’s words, “life has become better, life has become merrier”. In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphal­ism and the harsh reality of low living standards and even lower expectations. For in Stalin’s ideal city there is no longer a place for those who do not fit the bright, shining image of the new men and women of the future. The heroine, Moscow Chestnova, is an Everywoman, both virgin and whore, who flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her. In a variety of styles ranging from the grotesque to the sentimental to the absurd, Platonov lays bare the ways in which language itself has been debased, even borrowing slogans from Stalin’s own speeches for comic effect.

Product Description: Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his fascination with and research into Russian history of the 18th century. During the reign of Catherine the Great, the young Grinev sets out for his new career in the army and en route performs an act of kindness by giving his warm coat to a man freezing in a blizzard...read more