Russian Literature
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Master and the Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
<p><b>Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv.</b> <p>Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, <i>The White Guard</i> takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime. <p>Bulgakov's first novel, <i>The White Guard</i> is one of the greatest works of twentieth century Russian literature. As epic a chronicle of life and death in the Russian Empire as <i>War and Peace</i>. <p><b>'The tumultuous atmosphere of the Ukrainian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
A Gentle Creature
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
Selected Poems
Anna Akhmatova
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels
Nina Berberova
Petersburg Tales
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
The Nose
Nikolai Gogol
The Shooting Party
Anton Chekhov
The Eye
Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
Valdimir Nabokov
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.<br/><br/>“Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune<br/><br/>Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.<br/><br/>Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.
The Double and the Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Finished
What is Art?
Leo Tolstoy








