Russia - Social life and customs - 1533-1917
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A Sportsman’s Notebook: Introduction by Max Egremont
$28.00 Add to cartIvan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth-century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a series of sketches, a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410457
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$15.00 Add to cartThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140447954
- Language: English
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Oblomov
$18.00 Add to cartIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. To… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goncharov, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449876
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of lando- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448071
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$18.00 Add to cartSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776443
- Language: English
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Demons
$21.00 Add to cartInspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a " novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679734511
- Language: English
