Literature

Waltz of the Dogs [Andreyev, 1924]

Leonid Andreyev. The Waltz of the Dogs. A Play in Four Acts.  In a desolate city, a group of dogs discover the remnants of a waltz, and through their howling and whining evoke a profound emotional response from the narrator. A must-read for fans of...

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...

Novels of Turgenev 12v set 1890s [Incomplete]

The Novels Of Ivan Turgenev. 13 volumes of 15. A mix of similarly printed and bound editions printed in London by William Heinemann and in New York by Macmillan and Company. All of the books indicate Macmillan in gilt on the bottoms of the spines...

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...

Zig Zag Journeys in the Orient [1882]

Zig Zag Journeys in the Orient. Hezekiah Butterworth. Full title: The Adriatic to the Baltic; A journey of the Zigzag club from Vienna to the Golden Horn, The Euxine, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. MA (Boston): Estes & Lauriat, 1882. 2nd printing...