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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Vintage, 1999
Sheer Genius (and a good translation)
+ Can read repeatedly without becoming bored.
+ Nikolai Gogol, the Jonathan Swift of Russian Satire and the Charles Dickens of Russian Literature
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 this coming from a translated ...
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 1993
Crime and Punishment
+ A true masterpiece
+ Awesome Insight into the mind and heart of a criminal
+ Masterful work, worthy of every accolade it's received, and worthy of accolades it has yet to receive....
+ One of my favorites
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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
+ Encyclopedic in Scope. Please Click on Links Below to My Unabridged-Version Reviews
+ A soul-shaking earthquake of a book...
+ The single greatest literary work of the twentieth century.
+ A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO
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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
+ The best of Nabokov
+ Nabokov's Best
Picture Vladimir Nabokov. In the hall of mirrors that is popular culture, he is the dirty man who wrote the dirty book "Lolita," about a 12-year-old "nymphet" -- he invented the term, by the way -- and her affair with an older man. Angle the mirror another way, and he is one of the founders of ...
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, 2003
Contents listing
+ How it was Done in Russia
The other review (by the reader from New Orleans) appears to refer to the 19th-century volume, not to this the 20th-century volume. Here's the contents list for THIS volume, copied-and-pasted from elsewhere... "Alyosha the Pot", Leo Tolstoy "The Bishop", Anton Chekhov "Recollections of Leo ...
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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
+ One of the best biographies I've ever read
+ Brilliant
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Orlando Figes
Picador, 2003
Portrait of a complex, unique culture
+ The third side of the Russian coin.
+ Like Taking An Excellent College Overview Course
+ a Slice of History
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A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
Anna Politkovskaya
Random House, 2007
Sense of Sadness from Politkovskaya Murder
+ Russia's conscience recorded
+ Superb !
+ A Sad and Depressing Story!
+ What courage!
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
Major Step Forward for English Readers
+ The Cost of Smithing Words
+ Expand Your Mind
+ A seminal contribution to academic library collections
+ Superb collection of a Moral and Literary Giant.20 Stars**************************
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Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
Leo Tolstoy
Signet Classics, 2002
both timeless and of its era
+ Sometimes it's great to be a putz ...
+ I really like this book, but...
+ Anna's tale
+ Please enter a title for your review
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993
One of the great periods of world literature- anthologized
+ Re: Contents listing below by stonechat
+ everything important right here!
Nineteenth century Russia Literature is one of the great Literatures of Mankind. Consider 'War and Peace' and 'Karamozov' Tolstoy and Dostoevsky alone, two of the giants. But also in that century Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Chekhov other very major writers.
In this anthology there are ...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Signet Classics, 2008
only one day in the gulag
+ Five Star Book of Five Star Books
+ Icy, Enduring, Classic ...
+ An important book
+ Frightening Insight Into the Dark Side of Mankind
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Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years
Brian Boyd
Princeton University Press, 1993
Behold the splendid Bird of Paradise!
+ Probably the definitive Nabokov biography for years to come
+ Great book- Even better than Nabokov himself, at times
+ One of the best biographies I've ever read
+ Brilliant
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Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2004
Brilliant
+ hard read
+ Notes From Underground
+ Superb character development
+ "I AM A SICK MAN...I am a wicked man."
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Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press, 1996
An Outstanding Biography
+ Notes from the Underground
+ Great Insight Into A Great Genius
Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoievsky is a picture of the artist in the context of his century. It is not only a brilliant portrait of a great man but an image of nineteenth century Russia. It is neither patronizing nor overly analytic, but provides a taste of Dostoievky's life - making his ...
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