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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.

    • Boris Godounov. Alexander Pushkin. Boris Zvorykin. Introduction by Peter Ustinov. An exquisite fusion of the epic drama written by Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Modest Mussorgsky's (1839-1881) epic operatic composition, and Boris Zvorykin's (1872-1942) stunning five-color full page illustrations. Additionally, the translation here is by Alfred Hayes (1857-1936), an English poet, who rendered Pushkin's verse into English verse. All these elements were combined in the quality printing of Viking Press, exhibiting painstaking attention to details. NY: Viking Press (Studio Book): 1982. English edition. 114 pages.

      Boris Godunov [Pushkin, Zvorykin & Ustinov]

      Boris Godounov. Alexander Pushkin. Boris Zvorykin. Introduction by Peter Ustinov. An exquisite fusion of the epic drama written by Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Modest Mussorgsky's (1839-1881) epic...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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