A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...
'There is a good argument to say that any decent library must make room for War and Peace' Independent on Sunday 'It is hard to imagine how this translation could be superseded' Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Professor of Literature, Yale ...
The story is considered not only an early masterpiece of Russian Naturalism-a movement that would dominate the country's literature for generations-but a progenitor of the modern short story form itself.
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel.
With the completion in 1980 of the nine - volume Oxford Chekhov , Hingley has himself solved the major part of this problem ... Chekhov's most prolific translator into English , Constance Garnett , translated 147 of them , and did so ...
Includes biographical notes and a reading guide. This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born on 11th November 1821.
A collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature.
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general.
Dickens's short novel is one of the most-loved works in the English language and the best-known celebration of the Yuletide season.This special pocket edition of "A Christmas Carol" features an elegant bonded-leather binding, distinctive ...
Revolution in Russia
Russia's urban growth , 1724-1851 Urban population Percentage of total population Date 1724 1782 1796 1812 1835 1851 328,000 802,000 1,301,000 1,653,000 3,025,000 3,482,000 3.0 3.1 4.1 4.4 5.8 7.8 Source : Jerome Blum , Lord and Peasant ...
Gedung galeri sendiri merupakan rumah Tretyakov yang kemudian didesain oleh arsitek Rusia ternama Viktor Vasnetsov dengan gaya neo Rusia façade . Di sini pula Tretyakov menyimpan seluruh koleksi seni yang dimilikinya .
Russia and the USSR, 1905 to 1964: Teacher's resources
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Russia in Revolution 1881-1924. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D3, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes.
Contains primary source material.
Stalin's Russia, 1924-41
This series looks at countries in a state of political, economic and social transformation
Basing his criticism on the work of Nikolay Chernyshevsky, he attacks modern schools of thought that purport to be founded solely on logical reasoning, namely utilitarianism and positivism.
The unabridged text of Istoriia Rossii s drevneishikh vremen (History of Russia From Earliest Times), first published in St. Petersburg, 1851-1879, in 29 volumes, translated in 50 volumes from the Moscow edition of 1959-1966.