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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics
, 2004
A book well worth spending your time reading
Italo Calvino once said that, "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Well, I don't doubt he was talking about Anna Karenina! Published serially from 1873 to '77, this book is considered one of Tolstoy's two greatest works, alongside ...
City of Thieves: A Novel
David Benioff
Plume
, 2009
Compelling Piece of Historical Fiction
This terrific novel is set during the siege of Leningrad in WWII. The primary character is a seventeen year old arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper. He is forced to join forces with a 20 year old suspected deserter after their very brief prison ...
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
Leo Tolstoy
Vintage
, 2008
Leo's magnum opus
First, I'm a active 72 year old man that began reading more while recovering from an injury. After reading Anna Karenina, I figured why not. This translation of War and Peace is a very readable story and held my interest all the way to the Epilogue part 2, where ...
Winter Garden: Enhanced Special Edition
St. Martin's Press, 2010
Moving
Yes, the book starts slow...it could use a bit of editing to condense some of the first half. But stick with it, because the constant referring to the "fairy tale" DOES pay off!! Turns out the "fairy tale" really is an amazing story ~ truly! Such a moving, important ...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NAL Trade
, 2009
A Voice for the Countless
"One Day in the Life..." is stark, humane, and ceaselessly hopeful. Solzhenitsyn spend years in labor camps and exile, and he filters those experiences into this tale of one prisoner going through a day in the freezing wastelands of Siberia. Ivan has a ten-year ...
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
Knopf
, 2010
Adventure, natural history, politics, psychology, and more... it's all there!
The Tiger is an amazing book in so many ways. You come away from it feeling that you have a very thorough understanding not only of tigers and tiger attacks but also of the history, politics, terrain, people, customs, weather, philosophy and just about anything else ...
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage
, 1993
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The book I ordered was in the exact condition as described and item was shipped to me promptly!
Anna Karenina
Public Domain Books, 1998
Will re-read slowly
I read this straight through (which I wouldn't recommend-it was originally written and published as a serial in a newspaper over several years). It's a bit overwhelming in the sense that the characters are so well drawn that they deserve some pondering. I will ...
The Brothers Karamazov, with active table of contents, improved 8/8/2010
B&R Samizdat Express, 2009
Reading pleasure
I am reviewing the Kindle version only. It was formatted perfectly with no misspellings. I was in the middle of reading an old paperback copy when I bought my kindle. It was hard to read because the words went into the spine. Much better reading experience on my Kindle!
Best Russian Short Stories
Public Domain Books, 2004
Should be your First Kindle Purchase...for Free!
How can you go wrong with this? Some of the great classics from Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and a few other surprising gems I'd never read before. To read the Overcoat again, after about 20 years, was a true delight. There's something so real, palpable and ...
The Russian Revolution
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2008
The Russian Revolution did not end in 1920.
Fitzpatrick's short book about the Russian Revolution is so concise one has to wonder if she skimped on the facts. This is not the case. Anybody reading the book can only remark that thickness is not indicative of weight. All one needs to know about the Russian ...
Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics
, 2006
couldn't put it down
The Sidney Monas translation is magnificent! I was expecting it to be very slow-going, but I couldn't put it down. But its best to make a list of the names so you don't get confused as sometimes they refer to a person by first name, by last name, or by middle name.
The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)
Mikhail Bulgakov
Penguin Classics
, 2001
wonderful--but check the translator
The Master and Margarita is hilarious and engaging. I took a class called Russian Literature in English, and this book was by far my favorite (though the other texts we read were amazing, like Envy, The Petty Demon, We, and of course numerous Chekhov plays). However, ...
Student Activities Manual
Richard M. Robin
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Karen Evans-Romaine
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Prentice Hall
, 2006
Learning Russian
A great tool for learning to read, write, and speak Russian. Accompanies textbook and audio CD.
Anastasia (The Ringing Cedars, Book 1)
Vladimir Megre
Ringing Cedars Press
, 2008
Very pleased
Speedy delivery, great condition--even better than described. Also a nice little note of thanks from the seller goes a long way :) Thanks!
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