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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) from Penguin Books Price: $9.60 Customer Review:  Tolstoy is the type of author you either love or don't. There is no middle ground on taste here. His vivid descriptions for me have some of the greatest depth in literature. They are both comprehensive and complex. This is a story of characters you may know or live who have different names but... |
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The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) from Everyman's Library Price: $16.10 |
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The Brothers Karamazov from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $11.90 Customer Review:  Just this week I finished The Brothers Karamazov as part of an AP English Literature and Composition class. While this book will take a great amount of time to fully digest, I think a review is an order. I gave this book four stars because it is extremely well-written and the world has much to... |
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov from Bantam Price: $10.40 Customer Review: These stories are dream-like glimpses into lives. There is no overarching philosophy behind them, only pathos. They say life is mysterious, transcient, often ugly, nevertheless beautiful. That's Chekhov, the consummate artist. But I found the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation a little dry compared to... |
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Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics) from Vintage Books USA Price: $8.76 Customer Review: Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground" is an existential classic. This book, like many of Dostoevsky's works, intertwines the notions of literature and philosophy, probing the depths of aesthetic contemplation through philosophy. Dostoevsky, used this manuscript as a testing or training ground... |
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Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library Series) from Everyman's Library Price: $14.00 Customer Review: Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikoff , the truly marvellous creation of Dostevsky's 'Crime and Punishment ', representative of an uncontrollably intelligent mind swarming with thoughts bearing doubt, anger, chaos and extreme kindness! An epic about how a young man, Rodion, a former University student... |
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Master and Margarita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) from Penguin Putnam~trade Price: $10.36 Customer Review: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov in the 1967 Mirra Ginsburg translation is nothing short of a literary masterpiece. Re-reading the novel recently, I found the novel to be sublime and to transcend time. M& M is a timeless classic. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to... |
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The Idiot (Vintage Classics) from Vintage Books USA Price: $10.36 |
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) from Vintage Books USA Price: $10.50 Customer Review: Sometimes you just have to ignore what critics say and enjoy the thing itself when you find some truly funny stuff. Who can read Kafka's "Verwandlung" and "Ein Bericht fur eine Akademie" without laughing him/herself to death? The same case with Gogol. Just ignore what critics call symbolism or... |
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What Is Art? (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Books Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Tolstoy, in his magical, down-to-earth way discusses the wanton waste of money and time on sculptures, paintings, etc. that should never be called "ART." If something is designed purely for erotic satisfaction, it should not be called "ART." Even when a bizarre creation attracts thousands of... |
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) from Viking Customer Review: I'm usually reluctant to read long books originally written in a foreign language because so many translations sound stilted or else make everyone sound like an Englishman. This translation by Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky is natural sounding and evocative of the time period without being... |
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The Idiot (Everyman's Library) from Everyman's Library Price: $16.10 Customer Review: Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" is a compelling mixture of extremely well-drawn characterizations as well as an adept representation of the author's persistently over-arching world view concerning the "perennial questions" of human existence. The novel's main subject, Prince Myshkin, is a sublime... |
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Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics) from Vintage Books USA Price: $11.90 Customer Review: Nabokov, in his Lectures on Russian Literature, suggested that Dostoevsky be knocked off the canon of Russian writers, especially in favor of Turgenev, whom Dostoevsky hated. The reason was that Nabokov was against the "novel of ideas" because, he would say, it managed to achieve neither. Demons... |
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The Adolescent (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) from Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Price: $16.10 Customer Review: Without doubt one of his great novels. It is the second time i've read it in quiet awhile and am struck by how modern it really is. The narrative structure of using Arkady as the story teller helps explain the rushed, uneven and feverish pace at with the book unfolds: but it is an example of the... |
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Aias(Ajax): Ajax (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) from Oxford University Press Price: $9.95 Customer Review: I have always thought of the character of Ajax from the Trojan War to be the prototype of the "dumb jock" stereotype. Next to Achilles he was the best of the Achean warriors, but Ajax was deeply flawed in that he was stubborn and egotistical. I think his intelligence is further called into question... |
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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories from Bantam Classics Price: $5.99 Customer Review:  As a first-time reader of Dostoevsky, I found this translation to be difficult and the introduction to be inadequate. The wording used is often rough and choppy. It seems as if the translators themselves may not be native English speakers, as there is something odd and awkward about the phrasing... |
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Anna Karenina: A Novel in Eight Parts from Penguin Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: The opening line of Anna Karenina lays the groundwork for this often depressing, yet ultimately inspiring story: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Tolstoy's classic that follows tells the tale of several years in the lives of two families who's... |
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The Brothers Karamazov (Vintage Classics) from Vintage Books USA Price: $11.90 Customer Review: For those who are looking for an introduction to Dostoevsky, any one of the translations by Pevear and Volokhonsky should be chosen. For those who have read Dostoevsky in English before and would like to see how the greatest novel ever written can suddenly seem like the greatest improvement of... |
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Dead Souls (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) from Everyman's Library Price: $14.00 |
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Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) from Orbis Books Price: $10.50 Customer Review: To any who think that Orthodox Christians do not have the social conscience of Catholics, here is Mother Maria (now St. Maria)clearly stating that Christ will not ask us how many prostrations we have made, but whether or not we have loved our neighbor. This is a moving and perhaps jarring collection... |
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Books Ltd Customer Review: Anna Karenina is far one of the best literature I have read and I am only a high school senior. Yes, this book is a typical Russian literature because it is long (over 800 pages) and detailed. Nevertheless, it is worth the reading if the reader appreciates the beauty of this work. Anna Karenina is... |
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Dead Souls from Amazon Press Price: $2.99 Customer Review: Dead Souls is Gogol's first and only full length novel, ironically written in Rome rather than the Russian countryside it was set in. Tragically he destroyed most of the second volume shortly before his death leaving only bits and pieces of chapters leaving only volume I whole. A story of a... |
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The Pup Grew Up! from Henry Holt & Co Price: $13.95 |
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The Absentminded Fellow from Farrar Straus & Giroux Price: $16.00 Customer Review: This is the absolute masterpiece of Russian poetry for children. I was read this book since I was 1 year old. I was absolutely ecstatic to see one of my favorite book available in English. It is funny, entertaining and educational. What else can you ask from a book? If name of great Samuil Marshak... |
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First, Second from Farrar Straus Giroux Price: $8.95 |
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