Product Description: From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces...read more

Product Description: First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds...read more

Product Description: Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast...read more

Originally completed in 1872, this novel by the author of Crime and Punishment offers a politically prophetic study of a nation in turmoil and the anti-czarist liberal reformers who threaten the soul of the Russian nation. 10,000 first printing.

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.A s Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.

Product Description: A vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of War and Peace. Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all told with the evocative power that was Tolstoy’s alone...read more

Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka...read more

For the centenary of Chekhov's death, a new translation of his short novels - brought together in one volume for the first time. Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, never wrote a full-length novel, but he wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe - perhaps the most lyrical of the five - is an account of a young boy's frightening journey to enroll at a distant school. The Duel sets two decadent figures - a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility - on a collision course. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical becomes valet to the son of an important official in order to spy on him, but finds that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts the irony-laden life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labour, only to discover that the moral simplicity of his ideals is in conflict with the complex realities of life. In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and his profound understanding of human nature are brilliantly evinced.

The discovery of a mysterious doppelganger turns Goliadkin's life upside down in The Double, while the psychological novel The Gambler combines aspects of two obsessions: the love of a rejecting woman and the fever of gambling, in an omnibus edition containing new translations of two masterful short novels. Reprint.

A new translation of the nineteenth-century Russian master's short classics includes The Steppe, The Duel, The Story of an Unknown Man, Three Years, and My Life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A collection of writings that reflect the deep commitment to the gospel mandate that unites love of God and love of neighbor comes from the modern saint and Orthodox nun (1891-1945) who made her home in Paris a haven for Jews during Nazi occupation, a cause for which she gave her life in a concentration camp. Original.

The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with their guilt

A fresh translation of the classic Russian novel retells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An anthology of short fiction by the great Russian writer encompasses thirty of his finest tales, including 'The Huntsman,' 'The Boring Story,' 'The Lady with the Little Dog,' 'Ward No. 6,' 'The Student,' 'The FiancTe,' and 'The Bishop,' representing various periods in his creative work. Original. (view table of contents)

A new translation offers thirteen satirical and fantastic stories of downtrodden characters who are set upon by the powers that be

Product Description: Fr Pavel Florensky (1882-1937) was one of the most genial figures of Russia's Silver Age at the beginning of this century. He was a man of unusually varied interests and talents who was uniformly held in esteem by his peers in all the areas of his variegated expertise, from mathematics and engineering to philosophy, theology, the arts, and linguistics...read more

Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind.