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    • Literary Literature

    Here you can find an interesting selection of literary fiction, literary guides, and some just plain literary bits and pieces. For biographies and memoirs, go here.

    • Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British author who is best known for his works on Soviet history. This book on Tolstoy is one of his few titles that doesn't involve politics. Illustrated by a wealth of portraits, prints, drawings, photographs and documents. NY: Viking (Studio Press), 1974. 276 pages. First edition.

      Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist [Crankshaw]

      Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British author who is best known for his works on Soviet history. This book on Tolstoy is one of his few titles that doesn't involve politics. Illustrated by a wealth of...
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      Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Neil Cornwell, editor. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. First edition pre-Routledge printing. 974 pages. Hardcover, printed boards. Ex-libris sticker of L.Nelson Bell Library inside front cover. Overall near fine. Books weighs 7 pounds.

      Reference Guide to Russian Literature [Cromwell, 1994]

      Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Neil Cornwell, editor. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. First edition pre-Routledge printing. 974 pages. Hardcover, printed boards. Ex-libris sticker of L.Nelson Bell Library inside front cover...
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    • The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы).  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Михаил Евграфович Салтыков), first published in 1880. It is regarded as a classic of Russian literature, considered to be "the gloomiest book in all Russian literature" [D. S. Mirsky] making it very Russian indeed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1962. Translated by Natalie Duddington, introduction by Edward Garnett.

      The Golovlyov Family [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]

      The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы).  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Михаил Евграфович Салтыков) (1826-1889), first published in 1880. It is regarded as a classic of Russian literature, considered to be "the gloomiest book in all Russian...
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    • Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. NY: Overlook Duckworth Press, 2007. List of authors and an index. Illustrated.

      Literary Russia. A Guide.

      Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. The authors trace the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, and discusses their roles in the spiritual, political, and...
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    • Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. The Positive Hero in Russian literature. CA: Stanford University Press 1975. 369 pages, index. Hardcover with dustjacket in a protective clear Mylar jacket cover.

      Positive Hero in Russian literature

      Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. The Positive Hero in Russian literature. This classic text brings a period of Russian literature to life and demonstrates how the battles over the positive hero reappeared with dramatic clarity in the dissident literary movement...
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    • Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction

      Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction

      Xenia Gasiorowska. The Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction. WI (Madison): Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1979. 1st printing, stated. 174 pages, illustrations, endnotes, plot summaries, bibliography, and an index. Hardcover in good dustjacket now in a...
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    • Glory [Vladimir Nabokov]

      Glory [Vladimir Nabokov]

      Vladimir Nabokov. Glory (Подвиг). Written and published in 1932 and translated by Nabokov's son, Dmitri, in 1972. It was his fifth Russian-language novel but his last to be translated into English. Somewhat autobiographical, the novel's Swiss-Russian...
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    • The Naked Year (Голые Года). Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк - 1894-1938). Written in 1922, the novel was one of the first fictional accounts of the Russian Civil War. Set in the provincial town of Ordinin, it is an unconventional impressionistic account of people from different social groups, including merchants, the nobility (House of Ordinin), peasants and townspeople. Pilnyak criticizes the starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of the Revolution and these comments helped condemn him down the road. Eventually he was accused of plotting to kill Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov (head of NKVD), and of being a Japanese spy. He was tried in 1938, pleaded guilty, and was executed the same day at the Kommunarka shooting ground.  MI (Ann Arbor): Ardis Publishers: 1975. Translated from the original Russian by Alexander R. Tulloch, first published in 1928.

      The Naked Year [Boris Pilnyak]

      The Naked Year (Голые Года). Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк - 1894-1938). Written in 1922, the novel was one of the first fictional accounts of the Russian Civil War. Set in the provincial town of Ordinin, it is an unconventional impressionistic account of...
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    • Siberian Gold. Theodore Acland Harper in collaboration with Winifred Harper. NY (Garden City): Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. 335 pages, decorated orange and black cloth boards. Part of the Young Moderns Books series. The story is about an American engineer mining gold in Siberia, and is geared towards young readers. Harper graduated from the School of Mines at New Zealand University in 1897 and worked in Alaska and Siberia at the turn of the century, where he was put in charge of a mining concession in Eastern Siberia along the Amur River. He stayed there for eight and a half learning Russian, and living during turbulent times (the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian revolution). Siberian Gold introduces characters that are familiar to the distinguished campers at the distinguished Camp Namanu (Portland, OR). Winifred Mary Hunter-Brown Harper (1872-1933) collaborated with her husband Theodore Acland Harper (1871-1942) in writing adventure books for children.

      Siberian Gold [1936]

      Siberian Gold. Theodore Acland Harper in collaboration with Winifred Harper. NY (Garden City): Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. 335 pages, decorated orange and black cloth boards. Part of the Young Moderns Books series. Hardcover with good dustjacket in...
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