books about: english-russian

books about: english-russian

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English-russian

Stella Rimington

Knopf, 2008

I'm sure glad I discovered this writer
I still need to read her first book in this series and also her autobiography. However, she's certainly carving a niche for herself and I noticed that she's even obliquely referred to by another outstanding lady author, P.D. James, in her recent book, THE LIGHTHOUSE.I ...

Teach Yourself Russian Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself . . . Complete Courses)

Daphne West

McGraw-Hill, 2004

A Good Introduction
I am using this text and its CDs to follow Pimsleur Conversational Russian. I used the 8 CD Pimsleur to jumpstart my vocabulary and pronunciation. Now I am working on my understanding of grammar and expanding my vocabulary using this Teach Yourself Russian. This ...

Stories of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Bantam, 2000

perceptive and heartbreaking
Chekhov simply astonishes. "The Lady with the Little Dog," one of his most famous stories, is rendered splendidly by Pevar and Volokhonsky. I don't know of any other writer who captures the confusion, fear and excitement of romantic love as well as Chekhov does here. ...

The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks)

Nicholas J. Brown

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996

Best foreign language learner's book, bar none
I have studied on my own at various levels of seriousness 6 languages in my life, (some to the extent of becoming fully fluent, some becoming basically conversational, and some starting and giving up out of disinterest or dislike for the language in general) and amid ...

From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels)

Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Chess Match Turns Deadly For 007
Though it ends with as sharp a period as any Ian Fleming ever made, the operative punctuation in 1957's "From Russia, With Love" is found in its very title, a comma. "From Russia" is not an end but a turning, from the lighter Bond adventures Fleming penned at the start ...

Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Signet Classics, 2004

Brilliant
Fortunately, I missed reading this in high school- after finally reading it in my twenties, I honestly couldn't imagine having gotten nearly this much out of it. It's a brilliant character study of a sublime anti-hero. If this was "put on you" in high school and you ...

Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 1 (4th Edition)

Richard M. Robin, Karen Evans-Romaine, ...

Prentice Hall, 2006

Not a self study book
This book is not meant for self study, it is intended for college level instruction. This is the book I used when I took Russian in college. The publisher has a website with downloadable videos to aid the text. The lessons inside the book are great, but not intended ...

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

Dover Publications, 1990

Great literature and challenging Russian practice
This book works on two levels: One, these short stories are by the Russian masters of the genre. In English translation, they are powerful, evocative, and moving, on their own. There is a reason why Pushkin, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky are still popular: Those guys ...

English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary

Kenneth Katzner

Wiley, 1994

THE standard in foreign language dictionaries
Ideal for translating everything from "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" to contemporary colloquial Russian. Unlike other dictionaries, Katzner's identifies literary obsolete, colloquial, and even vulgar words thus sparing the student of potentially embarrassing ...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Vintage, 1999

Sheer Genius (and a good translation)
This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All ...

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Major Step Forward for English Readers
This set is a major step forward to the presentation and understanding of Solzhenitsyn to English speaking readers. It is a process that will still take years, but I suspect this volume will be pivotal. In the early days, the writer's books were rushed into print ...

English Grammar for Students of Russian (English grammar series)

Edwina Jannie Cruise

Olivia & Hill Pr, 1993

Most people don't know the grammatical rules of their lang..
Great book. It will help you identify what parts of English grammar you've forgotten because you've never needed to discuss it. Suddenly, in Russian class, you must identify parts of speech and tenses and so on. The understanding of our grammar is so very important in ...

Russian For Dummies (For Dummies (Language & Literature))

Andrew, Ph.D. Kaufman, Serafima, Ph.D. Gettys, ...

For Dummies, 2006

Trying to get a grip on Russian?
This book teaches you the basics of Russian in a useful way. You don't have to read straight through either. You can skip to the part you want, like writing letters. I don't think it will teach you Russian on it's own. I suggest investing in the Rosetta Stone ...

Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)

Leo Tolstoy

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004

Best single volume of the short fiction
I prefer the Everyman's volumes because the typesetting is so much nicer. The present volume is a trade-sized paperback with the text simply photo-enlarged from the original mass-market edition. Both volumes use the Maudes' translations, but the Everyman's includes ...

Oxford Russian Dictionary

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

best russian english dictionary
I have many Russian English dictionaries, including some you can only get in Russia and some written entirely in Russian and this is by far the most complete and helpful dictionary I have. I use it almost exclusively. I must confess though that I don't use the ...