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1	Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov add to wishlist Vladimir Nabokov's dazzling autobiography, published in 1966, is a dense and enchanting flood of recollections--of his comfortable bourgeois childhood and adolescence, his obsession with lepidoptery, his rich and liberal-minded father, his beautiful and compassionate mother, an army of relations and hangers-on, and St. Petersburg in pre ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lectures on Russian literature more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers add to wishlist These lectures by Nabokov at Cornell deal mainly with Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorki. see all copies from $2.26! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Complete Works of Isaac Babel more books like this by Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel (Editor), Peter Constantine (Translator) add to wishlist Isaac Babel, one of the greatest writers to come out of Soviet Russia, died in a Siberian labor camp in 1941. He wrote masterly short stories, many of them about Jews trying to survive within the Soviet state--and often falling victim to it, as he did. This volume, edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel (who also writes a lengthy memoir of her ... see all copies from $16.17! new only from $16.17! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Factory of Tears more books like this by Valzhyna Mort, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright (Translator), Franz Wright (Translator) add to wishlist "Valzyhna Mort . . . can justly be described as a risen star of the international poetry world. Her poems have something of the incantatory quality of poets such as Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg. . . . She is a true original."-Cuirt International Festival of Literature "[T]he searing work of Valzhyna Mort . . . dazzled all who were fortunate to ... see all copies from $4.89! new only from $9.00! \| first editions
5	My Past & Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen more books like this by Dwight MacDonald (Editor), Alexander Herzen add to wishlist Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time: as theorist, polemicist, propagandist, ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
6	The bedbug [a play] and selected poetry more books like this by Vladimir Mayakovsky add to wishlist Mayakovsky (1893-1930) is one of the most important post-Revolution poets of Russia, and one of the major international figures of 20th-century avant-garde poetics. This selected edition draws from his entire career, ranging from his early love lyric "The Cloud in Trousers," through "Conversation with a tax Collector About Poetry," to "Bedbug," ... see all copies from $3.52! new only from $11.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900 more books like this by Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky, Prince, Francis J Whitfield (Editor) add to wishlist Russian literature has always been inseparably linked to Russian history. D. S. Mirsky, in dealing with this fact, constantly keeps in mind the ever colorful and changing aspects of the one in discussing the other. With a keen and penetrating sense of values, fortified by a style sharp enough to carry every nuance of his meaning, he explores one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.55! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Handbook of Russian Literature more books like this by Dr. Victor Terras (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.03! new only from $42.28! \| first editions
9	Strong Opinions more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov add to wishlist This collection of Nabokov's opinions, as expressed in interviews, articles, and reviews, includes his thoughts on literature, movies, American culture, art, and the Russian Revolution. see all copies from $6.25! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey more books like this by Janet Malcolm add to wishlist A die-hard Chekhov fan, the New Yorker magazine contributor travels to Russia to immerse herself in the study of Chekhov. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Moral Apostasy in Russian Literature more books like this by George J. Gutsche add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $52.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The trial begins more books like this by Abram Tertz add to wishlist Abram Tertz, one of the most important writers to emerge in the Soviet Union since World War II, came to prominence in 1959 when "On Socialist Realism" was published in the West. It was the first important critique of the central dogma of Soviet literature. It arrived with a novel - "The Trial Begins", which was published in 1960. Other books ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.29! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A History of Russian Literature more books like this by Dr. Victor Terras add to wishlist This work presents a survey of Russian literature from its beginnings in the 11th century to modern times. Victor Terras argues that Russian literature has reflected, defined, and shaped the nation's beliefs and goals, and he sets his survey against a background of social and political developments and religious and philosophic thought. Terras ... see all copies from $5.46! new only from $24.25! \| first editions
14 view cover	Chekhov's Plays: An Opening Into Eternity more books like this by Professor Richard Gilman add to wishlist Richard Gilman examines each of Chekhov's full-length plays, showing how they relate to each other, to Chekhov's short stories, and to his life. He also places the plays in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period. Gilman interweaves biographical narrative with textual commentary and with a discussion of ... see all copies from $4.38! new only from $30.58! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The poems of Doctor Zhivago more books like this by Boris Pasternak add to wishlist The 25 poems from Pasternak's masterpiece Doctor Zhivago are followed by a masterful critique of their function in the novel and their value as poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Pushkin's button more books like this by Serena Vitale add to wishlist A description of the last few months of Pushkin's life before his death on January 27, 1837. One of the greatest poets in Russian history, Pushkin moved through the imperial court of St. Petersburg and was at the center of many of its intrigues and not a few of its scandals. Vitale is a well-known translator of Russian and an expert on Pushkin. A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.12! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by W S Merwin (William Stanley) add to wishlist W.S. Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. While he has long been viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his poetry has been unavailable in Britain for over 35 years. This new selection ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $12.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Collected Poetry more books like this by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Walter W Arndt (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.42! new only from $12.34!
19 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture more books like this by Nicholas Rzhevsky, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist Russia is a dominant force in the world, whose culture has been shaped by its unique position on the margins of both East and West. As Russia faces new cultural challenges from outside its national boundaries, this volume introduces Russian culture in all its rich diversity, including the historical conditions that helped shape it and the arts ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings more books like this by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak add to wishlist Safe Conduct is Boris Pasternak's first autobiography written when he was forty and after the great success of Dr. Zhivago. Experimental in its category, its isolated sharp impressions and juxtapositions seem to deny a normal chronology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.04! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 more books like this by Joseph Frank add to wishlist This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
22	The oak and the calf : sketches of literary life in the Soviet Union more books like this by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History more books like this by Sir Isaiah Berlin add to wishlist 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction more books like this by Dr. Rowan Williams add to wishlist This is an extraordinary book, which through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels enables the reader to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century - a societal landscape fraught with tensions and social inequalities.When an Archbishop of Canterbury takes time off to write a book about Dostoevsky, this is a sign of great hope and encouragement for ... see all copies from $18.71! new only from $18.71! \| first editions \| SVS
25	A Voice from the Chorus more books like this by Abram Tertz, Abram Terktls add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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