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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Incredibly vivid and lively
+ Paramount challenge to the reader intellect
+ Awe-inspiringly Epic
+ Dostoevsky's Best
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Penguin Classics, 2004
enlightening goofball
+ Catfish tails and Purity
+ Deal Souls is a Masterpiece of Russian/World Literature
Having worked my way slowly through a handful of Russian classics (Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Gorky, Nabokov), I naively based my expectations of Gogol on a stereotype aggregated from these literary giants- profound insight into human nature amplified by the trials of an oppressed society. ...
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press, 1987
More exciting than Crime and Punishment
Frank has written a magisterial series on Dostoevsky, a life's work. The books move through the social, political, biographical and literary world of Dostoevsky. This reader was thrilled.
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Vladimir Nabokov The Russian Years
Brian Boyd
Chatto And Windus, 1990
Behold the splendid Bird of Paradise!
+ Probably the definitive Nabokov biography for years to come
+ Great book- Even better than Nabokov himself, at times
+ Brilliant
+ A Brilliant Critical Biography
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Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Bantam, 2000
Delightful
+ surprisingly interesting
+ The Master of the Short Story
+ Everyone must read these stories!
+ Wonderful but depressing stories
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Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years
Brian Boyd
Princeton University Press, 1993
The Biography Nabokov Deserves!
+ One of the best biographies I've ever read
In my review of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, I say that "I am grateful to Boyd for his serious scholarship, his lively prose, and his close analysis of Nabokov's oeuvre." That comment applies wholeheartedly to this volume as well. As a professor of literature at Cornell, Nabokov taught ...
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)
Ivan Turgenev
Penguin Classics, 1990
Treasure Chest
+ Cheap
+ Interesting Work, Curious Translation
Every once in a rare while, the avid reader stumbles across a work that reaffirms his or her faith in the written word, strengthens anew the belief that words majestically combined and woven into vibrant, lyrical tapestries of story, character, and place can release an inexpressible joy. Ivan ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue ...
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The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
Signet Classics, 2003
This is NOT the kindle ed.
+ Living the Wrong Way?
+ Great Story, but Why Not Buy a Collection?
+ powerful book. perfect condition
+ The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories
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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
An expose on the evil heart of Communism
+ A powerful book
+ true believer in the power of literature
+ Do You Believe Man Has the Capacity for Pure Evil?
+ A Stunning Work
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press, 1988
The seminal seed!
Maybe sound to free speculation, but to my view, Dostoevsky is spiritually the embodiment of the rebel man. Moreover, he may be regarded the authentic godfather of the existentialism in Literature. There are many arguments to support it, the conceptual, the spiritual affinities, the silence of God, ...
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Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire (Library of America)
Vladimir Nabokov
Library of America, 1996
Nabokov a hard act to follow for other serious writers
+ "Pale Fire" and "Lolita"
+ The best of Nabokov
+ Nabokov's Best
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 1993
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+ A classic to read very slowly in order to understand its underlying messages
+ A Tremedous Novel
+ The Prison of Conscience
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Orlando Figes
Picador, 2003
The passion of Russia
+ Natasha's Dance
+ Thorough, Balanced Exposition of Russian Culture
+ Not sure about the title?
+ Excellent Book
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library)
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993
One of the great periods of world literature- anthologized
+ Good compiliation
+ Re: Contents listing below by stonechat
+ everything important right here!
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