Literary Literature

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. Solomon Volkov, Antonina Bouis (translator). NY: Knopf, 2008. 1st edition (BCE). Hardcover, 352 pages. Dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover.   Volkov...