books about: english-russian

books about: english-russian

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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

Prompt service
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, Karen Evans-Romaine, ...

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!