Russian Fiction
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. First titled '1805' the first installment was published in the January...
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1877. The story is set in 19th-century Russia and follows the life of Anna Karenina, a married woman who embarks on an affair with the wealthy Count Vronsky. As their affair becomes more passionate, Anna must grapple with the societal norms and expectations of her time, which view infidelity as a serious transgression. The novel explores themes of love, desire, societal expectations, and the consequences of our actions. It is considered one of the...
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a social order seen as suffocatingly bureaucratic.
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St.
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy by Feltrinelli after being refused publication in the USSR. A French translation was published by Éditions Gallimard in June 1958, and the English translation published in September 1958 by Collins & Harvill, London, and Pantheon in the US.The novel takes its name from the protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor, and poet. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set...
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.
One Day In the Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence, it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
August 1914
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel was completed in 1970, first published in 1971, and an English translation was first published in 1972. The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historical point of view.
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate, is a 1959 novel by Vasily Grossman, and the author's magnum opus. Technically, it is the second half of the author's conceived two-part book under the same title, but while the first half (the novel For the Right Cause), written during the reign of Joseph Stalin and first published in 1952, expresses loyalty to the regime, Life and Fate sharply criticises Stalinism. Le Monde described it as "the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century.
Russian Fiction Books & Ephemera
War and Peace
by Tolstoy, Leo (Author)/ Briggs, Anthony (Translated by)
Penguin Classics, 2007. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 1440 pages. 8.00x5.25x2.50 inches.
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€16.48
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Paperback / softback. New. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake.
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€16.98
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA., 1978. Red leather cover with gilt design, ribbed spine. Gilt page edges, moire endpapers, satin ribbon marker attached. Limited edition published for subscribers to "The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century".
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€85.02
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
Fontana, Collins, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. 1967. 14th Impression. 542 pages. Pictorial paperback. Visible water staining to text block edges, pages remain clear. Pen inscription to first page. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Covers have mild edge-wear with curling to corners. Visible tanning to spine and edges with scuffing to spine ends.
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€3.98
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Watts, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition Without Dustjacket.Good Copy.Binding Is Solid.Text Unmarked.Not Ex-Library Copy.Corners Slightly Bumped.
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€16.99
ANNA KARENINA
by Leo Tolstoy
New York: Heritage Press. 1952. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase. Notes from publisher neatly laid in. Light shelfwear on slipcase bottom edge. .
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€187.10
WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy
New York: Barnes & Noble. 2019. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine in boards. Gilded text block edges. .
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€70.84
WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy
New York: Modern Library / Random House. N.D.. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Chips and tears to jacket. No date. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .
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€41.31
NABOKOV'S DOZEN. A Collection Of Thirteen Stories
by Nabokov, Vladimir
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of short stories, Conversation Piece, First Love, Signs And Symbols and Lance first appearing in The New Yorker. 8vo. 214 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, yellow and red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper with some very light use. Juliar A32.1. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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€127.60
August 1914
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1972), 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [15], 4-622, [4] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; black topstain. Green endpapers and pastedowns with maps. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Glenny. A sharp example of the American first edition. A novel which explains parts of the origins of the Communist Revolution in Russia. Two small spots of discoloration on one...
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€78.45
Doctor Zhivago
by PASTERNAK, Boris
(New York): Pantheon, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Later printing. Faint offsetting on endpapers, dampstain on front cloth board, thus good only in a fair only dampstained dustwrapper with edges chipped.
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€18.90
Doctor Zhivago
by Pasternak, Boris
Important Books, 2013. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€19.38
DEAD SOULS
by Nikolai Gogol
New York: Modern Library. 1997. Modern Library Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Lean to spine. .
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€75.57
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[MAYAKOVSKY INFURIATING LENIN] 150.000.000
by Mayakovsky, V
Moscow: Gos. izd., 1921. 70 pp. 13.6x18 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, private library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p. 3, and p. 25. Otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. SCARCE LIFETIME EDITION OF THE FUTURIST POETRY BY VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY. One of the most active supporters of the October Revolution, Mayakovsky dedicated his satirical poem, 150.000.000, to the new Socialist culture and society. The work was written during...
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€803.42
WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy
New York: International Collectors Library. 1962. International Collectors Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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€155.91
August 1914
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 622pp. Beautiful Stated First American Printing in an equally brilliant unclipped wrapper, $10.00), protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Minimal shelf-wear and a tiny bit of soiling to bottom page edges. A very pretty collectable copy.
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€70.89
ANNA KARENINA
by Leo Tolstoy
New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2004. Abridged Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0760757712 . Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Gilded text block edges. ; Barnes & Noble Classics; 6.0 X 3.9 X 1.0 inches; 832 pages .
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€66.12
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
very good paperback
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€8.50
