Larissa Volokhonsky
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control...
22) Demons
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 182
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection.
BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an...
BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old
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