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The Word That Causes Death's Defeat : Poems of Memory
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Hardcover - $61.95
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she ...
Andrei Bely : The Major Symbolist Fiction
Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Paperback - $28.95
A leading Russian Symbolist poet, essayist, and mentor to an entire generation of writers, Andrei Bely (1880-1934) achieved greatest renown for three brilliant novels: Petersburg -- which has been ranked with the masterpieces of Joyce, Kafka, and Pro ...
Russian Women's Shorter Fiction : An Anthology, 1835-1860
Joe Andrew
Hardcover - $622.95
This anthology offers an introduction to the first major flowering of Russian women's writing between the years 1835 and 1860, introducing the reader to such significant figures as Elena Gun, Mariya Zhukova, Nadezhda Durova, and Avdotya Panaeva. Newl ...
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
Paperback - $39.95
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 plays and film scripts"--David Ulin, "Los Angeles Times."
Lermontov's a Hero of Our Time : A Critical Companion
Lewis Bagby
Paperback - $44.95
After Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) is considered the most important Russian poet of the nineteenth century. When his only novel, A Hero of Our Time, was published in 1840, it took the public by storm. Praised as the first Russian no ...
Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
Paperback - $31.95
This book is double-voiced: it is doing two things simultaneously, for the multitude of shattered unities we call revolution brings forth texts with peculiar forms of unity. At one level it is a guidebook for its times, and at another level it is a c ...