books about: russian-english

books about: russian-english

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Russian-english

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 ...

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 ...

The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

Signet Classics, 2003

Wonderful
Tolstoy's brief novella 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' is one of the most compact and brilliant meditations on the meaning of death in literature. Tolstoy's breathtaking naturalism is truly miraculous. Ivan Ilyich is respectful administrator who is dying a painful death from a ...

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 ...

Illegal Action

Stella Rimington

Knopf, 2008

The DG just keeps getting better
The author, a former MI5 Director General, is at the top of her form in this third Liz Carlyle novel. Unlike so many fictional spies, Carlyle lives in a real world, with paperwork and budget cuts and manpower shortages. It's so refreshing to read about characters who ...

Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Signet Classics, 2004

Notes From Underground
Notes From Underground is a difficult but immensely gratifying and important read. Critics tend to refer to the Underground Man as a 'Mad Genius'; I beg to differ. He is the epitome of the average thinking human albeit with a shocking amount of self awareness. The ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context, 2nd Edition

Olga Kagan, Frank Miller, ...

Prentice Hall, 2005

Best Russky textbook
If you really intend to become fluent, this is a necessary text. Schaums Outline is great, but this gives so much profound nuance, is great concise form. Pity that I already bought the awful 'Troika.' Academia seems to dumb down teaching languages, so student must ...

Final Harvest: Poems

Emily Dickinson

Back Bay Books, 1964

Strong Medicine
I was never actually a fan of poetry until I encountered Emily Dickinson's poems. It seems as if she has written a poem for everyone. I strongly recomend this book, as my English teacher did to me, not only because of my love for Emily Dickinson, but for the quality ...

Golosa, Book 2: A Basic Course in Russian (4th Edition)

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

Prentice Hall, 2007

good for written Russian, but needs an ASR
For an excursion into written Russian, this book is well done. The use of Russian throughout the text has been maximised, to push you towards as much of an immersion in it as possible. The grammar is developed considerably over the duration of the text. For ...

From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels)

Ian Fleming

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Unexpected and Fun
They couldn't write a book like this today. For example, the main character--Bond--doesn't even show up until page 123! The entire first third of the book is a detailed following of the villains plotting Bond's death. It's not until we get to the execution that we ...

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 ...