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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2019
White Nights is the classic novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It follows the story of a man who is alone and isolated in St. Petersburg. He is desperate for companionship, and when he meets a young woman he believes may be his soulmate, he is filled with hope. Through his conversations with her, he attempts to understand the meaning of love, loneliness and friendship. White Nights is a timeless story of love, longing and human connection. Its beautiful prose and thought-provoking themes have resonated with readers for generations. This edition is based on the 1918 translation by Constance Garnett (1861-1946).<br/><br/>Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher whose psychological depth and insight into the human condition made him one of the most celebrated authors of all time. His works, including Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, and The Idiot, have been translated into more than 170 languages and are considered to be some of the greatest works of literature in the world. Dostoevsky explored the depths of human emotions and experience, focusing on themes such as morality, suffering, and redemption. His works are often credited with pioneering existentialism and introducing the theme of nihilism to literature. Dostoevsky was also an influential political thinker, advocating for social justice and challenging the status quo of the time. His writing continues to inspire readers around the world and his legacy lives on as one of the greatest authors of all time.
First Love by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Ivan Turgenev, Delphi Classics · 2017
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Dubrovski
Aleksandr Sergeyevic Puskin · 2014
Rus edebiyatinin kurucularindan ve en buyuk isimlerinden biri olarak gorulen Aleksandr Puskin, 1837 yilinda bir duello sonucu vakitsiz olunce, yapitlari yarida kalmisti: Haksizlik karsisinda isyan eden ama ask karsisinda boyun egen romantik kahramaniyla Dubrovski de son doneminde yazdigi, olumunden sonra basilan bu yapitlardan biriydi.Puskin, Carlik Rusyasi'ndaki buyuk ciftlik sahiplerinin kaprisli ve hirsli iliskilerini, topraga bagli koylulerin birer mal gibi alinip satilabildigi kosullarini ve malikne sahiplerini tedirgin eden koylu ayaklanmalarini ele alir. Ayaklanmanin onderligini, soylu ve subay olmasina ragmen adalet icin insanlariyla birlikte Robin Hood'vari bir "zenginden alip yoksula verme" duzenegi kuran Dubrovski'ye vermesiyle yazar, donemine gore ilerici yanini da gostermistir. "Cetenin lideri zeksi, cesareti ve soyluluguyla un yapti. Onunla ilgili mucizeler anlatiliyordu; Dubrovski adi butun dillerdeydi, herkes cesur canilere onculuk edenin ondan baskasi olamayacagina ina
The garnet bracelet
Kuprin. A. I. · 2006
Level 2
The Shooting Party
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · 2014
Written early in his career, "The Shooting Party" was Anton Chekhov's first and only full-length novel, a murder mystery whose narrative devices would inform his later work and influence the work of legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. The narrator of the story, a local magistrate in a rural region, is in love with Olga, the young and beautiful daughter of Nikolai Efimych, the elderly administrator of the estate of Count Alexei. Olga in order to advance her position in life marries Urbenin, a middle-aged widower with two children who is good friends with Count Alexi and consequently finds herself torn between her desire for upward mobility and her true love for the narrator of the story. While "The Shooting Party" may not rise to the literary value of many of Chekhov's later works it is indeed a pleasurable read which exhibits the early development of Chekhov's literary style.
Woe From Wit
Alexander Griboyedov · 2021
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin · 2009
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov · 2012
A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or anti-hero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus.
Father and Sons
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev · 2020
Level 3
Mother
Maxim Gorky · 2014
This antiquarian book contains Gorky Maxim's 1906 novel, "The Mother". It is a moving and thought-provoking narrative of the parallel between the evolution of one man's mother and the evolution of Mother Russia. Mother is uneducated and has been beaten in her life, and has a loving son who wants to protect her. The son is a revolutionary. As the mother starts to read and educate herself, she becomes close to the revolutionaries who frequent her house, and eventually risks it all to make Russia a better society. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868 - 1936) was a Russian writer and political activist who founded the Socialist Realism literary method. This seminal book has since been translated into many languages and adapted for the screen numerous times. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
The Brother Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2012
The Brothers Karamazov 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. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger,Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut and Pope Benedict XVI as one of the supreme achievements in literature. -wikipedia
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 2011
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov · 1989
WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 1965<br/><br/>WINNER OF THE STALIN PRIZE, 1941<br/><br/>Mikhail Sholokhov’s groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life and culture in the early 20th century. In the same vein as War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, And Quiet Flows the Don gives readers a glimpse into many aspects of Russian culture, and the choices a country makes when faced with war and destruction.<br/><br/>In his enormous epic of Cossack life during the Revolution...Mikhail Sholokhov has achieved even greater power, sustained narrative gift and stirring human truthfulness.”—New York Times<br/><br/>“In addition to its panoramic grandeur, the wealth of its characters and its historic realism, Sholokhov's book is memorable for its portrayal of the primitive and already almost legendary life of the Don Cossacks.”—Malcolm Cowley, New Republic
War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 2014
War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s 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.
