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Everyman's library volume no. 66
Language
English
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Description
Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother - their father had died years before - and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1968, c1967]
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comic novel about the theater world in early Soviet Russia and a "biting attack on censorship" (The Guardian, UK).
From the author of The Master and Margarita, this semi-autobiographical satirical novel paints a vibrant portrait of life behind the curtains of the Russian literary and theater arenas in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Maxudov is a failed novelist who, after contemplating suicide, adapts his novel into a play that-seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Wolff
Pub. Date
[1968]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
ix, 146 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one...
6) Pʹesy
Author
Publisher
YMCA-press
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
255 pages : portrait ; 18 cm
Language
Russian
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7) Morphine
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xix, 396 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This collection includes not only well-known classics but also modern masterpieces, many of them previously censored. There are stories by acknowledged giants - Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn - and by equally great writers such as Platonov who have only recently become known to the English-speaking world. Some stories are tragic, but the volume also includes a great deal of comedy - from Pushkin's subtle wit to Kharms's dark absurdism,...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Rev. and updated ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 615 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For most of the twentieth century Russia existed under some form of dictatorship--with the paradoxical effect that in Russia literature continued to matter as it did in few other countries. The writers of modern Russia have possessed the power to enrage tyrants, to inspire allegiance and devotion in their readers, and to speak for the suffocating conscience of their motherland, even when they are addressing the least political of issues. At their...
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" by Dimitry Mamin-Sibiryak, "Life Granted" by Aleksandr Grin, and "Icarus" by Stepan Skitalets, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Kuprin, and others. No further apparatus or reference work is necessary for the self-contained text. Appropriate...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 876 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
A Seven Stories Press First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 563 pages : illustrations (some in color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Contemporary artists and illustrators reimagine great works of literature from around the world"--Back cover.
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