Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Russian & Former Soviet Union

For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. In this valuable collection, expert translator David Gasperetti presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia.
The country s first bestseller, Matvei Komarov s "Vanka Kain" tells the story of a renowned thief and police spy and is also an excellent historical source on the era s criminal underworld. Mikhail Chulkov s "The Comely Cook" is a...

Ilya and the Wolf Pack

The One-eyed Demon

The Midnight Visitor

Crossing the Don

Two Comrades

Frost

Ivashko

The Headless Princess

Lukan's Ladder

The Steed and the Stone

The Fiddler in Hell

Sozh and Dnieper

The Shroud

The Warrior and the Warlock

Mother Friday

The Witch of Death

The Two Corpses

The Woodland Damsel

The Blind Man and the Cripple

The Immortal...

A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the characters themselves are centred on two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for...

Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Exiled and isolated by Stalin, Trotsky used the only weapon he had left - words. In these writings he defends the 1917 revolution, warns prophetically of fascism and analyses anti-colonial movements in the global south.

This collection gives a sense of the real Trotsky - passionate, humanist,...