Russian & Soviet
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Greatest Short Stories of Dostoevsky
$5.99 Add to cartExplore Fyodor Dostoevsky’s world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities. From the poignant beauty of unrequited love in Wh… [more below]
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9358567023
- Language: English
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Greatest Short Stories of Dostoevsky
$5.99 Read moreExplore Fyodor Dostoevsky’s world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities. From the poignant beauty of unrequited love in Wh… [more below]
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9358567023
- Language: English
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Pro Eto – That’s What
$19.99 Add to cartVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. Part love poem, part political diatribe and t… [more below]
- Series: ARC Classics: New Translations of Great Poetry of the Past
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904614310
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship w… [more below]
- Author: Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181012
- Language: English
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
$18.00 Add to cart“This lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later” (P… [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 145164471X
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus
$16.99 Add to cart“The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. … Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. … Although little known, this book remains hugely importan
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 006199345X
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
$39.99 Read moreFinally in paperback, this “monumental collection; gathers all of Babel’s deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to pl… [more below]
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: November 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328244
- Language: English
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
$19.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted–Absurdly! Melancholical- Author: Batuman, Elif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532184
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$37.95 Add to cartA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.
Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoev- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674971809
- Language: English
