Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Ha......more
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolst......more
In the Sevastopol Sketches, Leo Tolstoy evocatively recollects his experiences at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1854-1855, ......more
It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the ......more
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. Whi......more
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin s immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the ......more
Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn t need them This humane, moving master......more
I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice... On......more
He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive.... Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, figh......more
Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mari......more
Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and Voronezh Notebooks, a sequence of poems composed b......more
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment ......more
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Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stori......more
One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing ......more
The Cherry Orchard was the last play written by Anton Chekhov and is widely regarded as one of his greatest dramatic ac......more
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and inc......more
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More New and Revised Titles. The Best Just Got Better Plus Glossary from Webster s New WorldTM Dictionary Anthem Atlas S......more
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Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction ex......more
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. ......more
Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of human sympathy, Nina Berberova stands as one of the treasur......more
Fathers and Sons (1862), Turgenev’s masterpiece, represents in its hero, Bazarov, ’the new man’, a nihilist liberated fr......more