Northwestern University Press
My Sister Life and the Zhivago Poems
75%
Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he…
The Twelve Chairs
67%
Winner of 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the…
Selected Lyric Poetry
67%
Includes many famous poems well known to, and often memorized by, every educated Russian, as well…
Farewall to Matyora
86%
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of…
Divine and Human and Other Stories
55%
Leo Tolstoy undertook the writing of the stories in Divine and Human and Other Stories around the…
Mayakovsky Plays
68%
One of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist,…
Fertility and Other Stories
56%
Vsevolod Ivanov was praised in the 1920s as one of the most original and promising young writers to…
Russian Nights
57%
Russian Nights, Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky's major work, is of great importance in Russian…
Moscow to the End of the Line
55%
A satirical novel of alcohol, politics, Soviet society, and love. The story of a cable fitter who…
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
76%
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before…
Time, Forward!
75%
Valentine Kataev's Time, Forward! is a classic of Soviet Realism. Written in 1932, the novel…
Place and Selected Writings
75%
These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally…
The Foundation Pit
85%
Once known only to a small circle of admirers in Russia and the West, Andrey Platonov (1899-1951)…