Русская литература на английском Читай Город

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky. "Anna Karenina" is a masterpiece, it explores and illuminates the deepest questions about how to live a fulfilled life. "Anna Karenina" is a book about life, written by a man who is profoundly in love with life.

The Idiot tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a man of pure innocence, whose kindness and open-hearted simplicity make many of the more earthy characters he encounters mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, his second wife. In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union for India, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable: A personal memoir about growing up inside the Kremlin that she’d written in 1963. The Indian Ambassador to the USSR, whom she’d befriended, had smuggled the manuscript out of the Soviet Union the previous year—and returned it to her as soon as she arrived in India.Structured as a series of letters to a “friend”—Svetlana refused to identify him, but we now know it was her close friend, Fyodor Volkenstein—this astounding memoir exposes the dark human heart of the Kremlin. After opening with Stalin’s death, Svetlana returns to her childhood. Each letter adds a new strand to her remarkable story; some are wistful—romanticized recollections of her early years and her family—while others are desperate exorcisms of the tragedies that plagued her, such as her mother’s suicide and her father’s increasing cruelty. It is also in some ways a love letter to Russia, with its ancient heritage and spectacularly varied geography.Candid, surprising, and utterly compelling, Twenty Letters to a Friend offers one of the most revealing portraits of life inside Stalin’s inner circle, and of the notorious dictator himself. . . . . . .

Книга воспоминаний и размышлений Виктора Пивоварова «Влюбленный агент» впервые вышла в Москве в 2001 году в издательстве «Новое литературное обозрение». Второе издание, расширенное и дополненное, было подготовлено в 2016 году Музеем «Гараж» и приурочено к ретроспективной выставке Виктора Пивоварова «След улитки». Книга «Влюбленный агент» сочетает в себе личную и творческую биографию автора с его комментариями-рассуждениями о многих жизненных аспектах, об искусстве, о вере, проблеме выбора, любви. Перевод культового романа Виктора Пивоварова «Влюбленный агент» выполнен одним из самых знаменитых современных переводчиков с русского на английский Эндрю Бромфильдом и открывает новую серию в издательской программе «Гаража» Artists Write. Серия будет посвящена выпуску на иностранных языках ранее не опубликованной прозы российских художников.

Английский язык. Русская классика. Стильное подарочное издание одного из самых известных в мировой литературе романов о всепоглощающей страсти, семье и выборе. В издании печатается перевод на английский язык Констанс Гарнетт, впервые познакомившей западного читателя с русской литературой. Книга проиллюстрирована утонченными работами Исидро Хиля, Элмер Б. Смита и Хелен М. Гроуз. Подарочное издание украсит любую коллекцию благодаря современной обложке с рельефными элементами, аккуратному блеску лака, ярким форзацам, а также стильному оформлению внутри, иллюстрациям и удобной для чтения лентой-закладкой.

"Одноэтажная Америка" - произведение в жанре путевого очерка, написанное Ильей Ильфом и Евгением Петровым. Это добрая и умная книга, рассказывающая о жизни и быте американцев, о встречах авторов с самыми разными людьми, полная интересных историй и наблюдений. Читателям предлагается неадаптированный перевод произведения на английский язык, выполненный Чарльзом Маламутом. Пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся творчеством И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова.

«…Передо мной было сердце дома - письменный стол хозяина. Свет зеленого стеклянного абажура настольной лампы приятно успокаивал. Но я все равно долго собиралась с духом, прежде чем решилась открыть самый большой ящик стола с врезным замком, из которого торчал ключ вместе со связкой других ключей. Тайна может вот-вот раскрыться. Страх раскрытия тайны был еще хуже, чем страх перед неизвестностью…»

Предлагаем вниманию англоязчыного читателя один из самых известных романов великого русского писателя Ф. М. Достоевского (1821-1881) «Идиот» в переводе Евы Мартин.

This book is about an declaration of love to a wonderful woman in a classic sonnet style, in tradition, which goes all the way up to Francesco Petrarke, William Shakespeare, Ronsar, Bodler, Verlen and other famous masters of this genre. And live a day... This book is about many areas of life of humans, the full range of feelings experienced by each of us, but its leitmotif is love in all its faces.

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has become an astonishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil’s existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the world capital of atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem. The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and Margarita is revealed in all its complexity. .

To pick the juiciest apple, you need to go to the apple orchard. In order to taste the sweetest grapes, you need to go to the vineyard. If you want to pick the most fragrant orange, you need to go to the plantation with citrus plants, right? But everything is easier when they bring you a basket of selected fruits. This book in a sense resem bles the very basket of the most valuable thoughts. There are a lot of motivational books that teach you how to succeed, as well as leadership concepts. What is the difference between the book that we intend to offer you? The fact that you have to get acquainted with the conclusions of the author, who motivated people for many years as a speaker, at the same time instructing his audience as a coach and professor of economics. The conclusions reached by the author after numerous experiments can be useful to hundreds of people. In this book you can also read valuable sayings from the best motivational books on success and leadership. In a word, we offer you, dear readers, a collection of valuable thoughts!

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina’s wilfulness. Written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead, Uncle’s Dream shares very little of that novel’s gloomy tone and contains many elements of a light, drawing-room farce. Beneath the surface, however, lies a sharply satirical voice which looks ahead in part to later novels such as Devils.

Предлагаем вниманию англоязчыного читателя один из самых известных романов великого русского писателя Ф. М. Достоевского (1821-1881) «Преступление и наказание» в переводе Констанс Гарнет.

Illustrated Timeline presents historical events and developments in a visual format. This series of illustrated guides outlines Russia’s history side by side with the history of other European countries. .This timeline summarizes the history of Russian statehood and the Russian monarchy from the second half of the 15th century (the reign of Ivan III) to the abolition of the monarchy in 1917. Major events from this period are marked on the timeline.

Illustrated Timeline presents historical events and developments in a visual format. This series of illustrated guides outlines Russia's history side by side with the history of other European countries. .This timeline summarizes the history of medieval Russia from the establishment of statehood and until the second half of the 15th century. Landmark political and cultural events marked on the main timeline correspond to the reigns of key Russian rulers. Separate timelines outline the history of the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and key stages in the development of Russia's other neighbors from that period in Eastern, Northern, and Central Europe.

Banned for 27 years and initially published in a heavily censored edition, The Master and Margarita is probably the most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Written as a satire of Stalin's suffocating bureaucracy, the book has inspired Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, The Rolling Stones' song Sympathy for the Devil and the work of many other international artists, writers and musicians.

In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow, along with a talking cat and an expert assassin. This riotous band succeed in fooling an entire population of people who persistently deny the devil’s existence, even as they are confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. The devil’s project soon becomes involved with The Master, a man who has turned his back on his former life and sought sanctuary in a lunatic asylum, and his former lover, Margarita.A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has been translated into more than twenty languages. Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this story constantly surprises and entertains.

When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state.A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world. . . . . . . .

It wasn't by chance that the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917, and nor was it the case with the Soviet Union. In both cases a powerful external force initiated Russia's falling apart using villains and fools, who completely destroyed their own country for money and attractive promises. The history of this great catastrophe still holds many mysteries, and there are much more questions than answers here. Germany, which is still blamed for it, was not more than a tool and fell a victim to its own revolution afterwards. February 1917 - this is when the Russian catastrophe of the 20th century started, and we paid too high a price to overcome the damage. However, as soon as we forgot how Russia's geopolitical enemies had destroyed our country, disintegration and chaos came back. In both cases, this force hid behind the smokescreen of an "alliance" and "universal values". And now their conceptual descendants, sufficiently sponsored from abroad, are ready to provoke a new revolution in Russia. .Read this book and learn: .- why Nicholas II and his brother abdicated so easily; .- who and how arranged Lenin's return to Russia in a "sealed" railway car; .- why the British agent Oswald Rayner put a security round into Grigori Rasputin's forehead; .- why the German General Staff never knew they had a spy by the name of Ulyanov; .- why the Provision Government paid for the passage of revolutionaries, who were going to overthrow them; .- why Alexander Kerensky didn't fight Bolsheviks but played a giveaway game with them and tried to hand the power to Lenin. .- Kerensky = Gorbachev = Yeltsin = ...? .Enough of this! There should be no more revolutions in Russia! .

Do you believe in soulmates?Aiden does. So when his colleague, Jen, is dumped unceremoniously by her dreadful boyfriend, Aiden decides to take matters - and Jen's life - into his own hands.Scouring the internet for a suitable partner for Jen, Aiden finds Tom. He'd be perfect for Jen apart from one minor detail: Tom lives in New York.Luckily for Jen and Tom, Aiden's not just an interfering colleague. In fact, Aiden isn't exactly human - he's a very complicated artificial intelligence.As Jen and Tom's romance grows, Aiden begins to take more and more risks to make sure that they can be together. But what will happen if they realise how they met...and that somebody else is pulling the strings? . . . . . . . . .

«Knives» is a detective story. Three attempts were made to kill Clara Yurievna, a tax officer, daughter of a wealthy businessman, bride of a famous professor. The method of murder was all the same, pretty strange for our times. The author reveals a wide range of characters, day-to-day rules and life situations.

One of the world's greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences-an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the modern age. In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, "grow from the same seed." "No other novelist," wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, "has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought." But Sigmund Freud and others saw the Russian's work in a different light. Said Freud, "He might have been a liberator of mankind. Instead he chose to be its jailer." "He is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from."-Friedrich Nietzsche

Originally written in Russian. What are the things experienced by the human soul on the sharpest edge of death or life? Isn't this nothing but revealing of the personality's true essence? The story "Shahid" is an attempt to look "beyond" ... Breathing is so rapid that it is impossible to breathe in ... The heart breaks into pieces of horror. The fate of an ordinary boy viewed through the crushed crooked mirrors of war in the conflict of East and West. The search, the slow clarification of the one's his true path, the lessons taught by life and love, are in the stories "Lollipops", "Christmas Jam", "Chestnuts", "At the Donskoy Monastery". "The Weird Man" is the strangest of all stories in this book. The title of it appeared in my dream. Entire epochs of Soviet life are seen through the story of my heroes. The invention, artfully connected with another invention... You would never guess what happened for real truth in it, in this story. I wish you a risky and unpredictable journey to other people's stories - in my book "Disrupted Breath".

Сборник Александра Ивановича Куприна включает знаменитые новеллы и рассказы: "Гранатовый браслет". "Молох", "Олеся", "Белый пудель", "Гамбринус", "Изумруд. Мастер прозы, Куприн обладал прекрасным языком, его рассказы - нечто естественное и честное. ."Гранатовый браслет" - одна из самых известных новелл, написанных Куприным. Русский писатель Константин Паустовский говорил, что это "одна из самых душистых, волнующих и печальных историй любви." .

Предлагаем вниманию читателей знаменитый роман советского писателя Михаила Булгакова «Мастер и Маргарита». Роман, написанный в течение одного из самых мрачных десятилетий двадцатого века, отражает сложную историческую эпоху и настроения советского общества тех времен. Бог и дьявол, добро и зло, творчество и гибель — в романе множество сюжетных линий, противоречивых героев, поступки которых неоднозначны и вызывают у читателя и грусть, и смех, и желание открывать роман и окунаться в его мистику и волшебство снова и снова. Представляем полный текст романа в переводе с русского на английский язык Хью Аплина.

The book by Nikolay Starikov, the author of bestselling "Rouble Nationalization - the Way to Russia's Freedom", "Who set Hitler against Stalin?" and many others, follows the events of the Civil War. The Russian statesmanship, its territorial integrity, and the economy of the country perished in the vortex of the Civil War. The Romanovs, the Russian Navy, the Russian Army, and millions of Russians were destroyed. The consequences of this horrible civil strife have not been overcome until today. In this book, you will find a lot of little-known facts, as well as answers to many questions: .- Who staged and directed the liquidation of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century? .- Who needed the Russian strife and who could gain from it? .- Who forced Lenin to liquidate the Tsar's family? .- Who is guilty of the murder of Nicholas II's children? .- Why did the leaders of the revolution repeatedly try to drown their own navy? .- Why did Vladimir Lenin order to execute the Tsar's family and at the same time ensured safety of other members of the Tsar dynasty? .- Why didn't the Entente help the White movement? .- Why was Admiral Kolchak murdered and why did the White Guard soldiers have to fight? .- Who made the soldiers of General Yudenich die in Estonian extermination camps? .- Who needed to have the troops of Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich, and Wrangel liquidated? .The burnt Russian villages and mass graves tell us the truth about the Russian strife, the truth about the outcome of the Civil War. Who guaranteed victory for the Reds, destroying their contenders? Who made this bloody merry-go-round possible? Who placed the stake? The stake on the Bolsheviks... .

Originally written in Russian. In the last days of the Third Reich, Hitlers astrologer gives rise to a secret operation to transport... the souls of Hitler and Eva Braun. They will remain in a secret shelter until young bodies are found for "relocation". And... a new round of conquering world domination will begin. Hitler, deprived of his soul, gives an ominous order — to flood the Berlin subway. This terrible sacrifice is necessary to maintain the existence of Hitler's soulless body. Meanwhile, the bodies of Hitler and Eve intend to «hook up» psychics from the CIA. And on the way of the cargo "069" there are psychics of the Russian GRU who will not allow rewriting the bloody history.

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic tales - demonstrates Anton Chekhov's mastery of the genre, with stories about marital infidelity, betrayal, deception and love in its various forms. Although varying m tone and purpose, what these tales have in common is a profound and subtle understanding of the human condition, in its farcical and melancholy aspects, couched in Chekhov's trademark minimalist style. .

Повесть Михаила Булгакова «Собачье сердце» – произведение о потере цивилизованных ценностей в советской России, в котором сочетаются острая сатира и глубокая философия. Выдающийся хирург задумал небывалый эксперимент — операцию по пересадке бездомной собаке Шарику человеческих гипофиза и семенников. Результаты операции превзошли все ожидания — Шарик постепенно начал принимать человеческий облик, но стал грубияном и пьяницей. Поддавшись влиянию коммунистического активиста Швондера, внушившего ему, что тот — пролетарий, страдающий от угнетения буржуазией (в лице профессора Преображенского и его ассистента доктора Борменталя), Шариков превращает жизнь в доме профессора в кошмар. Повесть опубликована в переводе на английский язык Антонины В. Буи.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей поэму в прозе великого русского писателя Н.В. Гоголя "Мертвые души", рассказывающую о похождениях Павла Ивановича Чичикова, авантюриста, скупающего у провинциальных помещиков "мертвые души". Перед читателем предстает панорама русской провинциальной жизни середины XIX века. .

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман И.С. Тургенева "Отцы и дети", ставший знаковым для своего времени, образ Евгения Базарова был воспринят многими читателями как пример для подражания. Бескомпромиссность, нежелание считаться ни с какими авторитетами, приоритет полезного над прекрасным - вот черты "нового человека", "человека 1860-х годов". .

Сборник рассказов "Темные аллеи" был написан Иваном Алексеевичем Буниным во время эмиграции, большинство произведений - в годы войны. Рассказы переведены на английский язык Х. Аплиным. В книгу включены комментарии и словарь. Для широкого круга читателей.

В книгу вошли шедевры драматургии великого русского писателя Антона Павловича Чехова - пьесы "Вишневый сад", "Чайка" и "Дядя Ваня" и переведены на английский язык. .

Вашему вниманию предлагаются переводы наиболее известных рассказов, относящихся к позднему периоду творчества А. П. Чехова. .Чехов следует принципу художественной объективности и не прописывает рецептов нравственного совершенствования и общественного переустройства. Мастер тонкого психологического анализа, он видит, что его герои страдают по причине житейских ошибок, дурных поступков и нравственной и умственной апатии. .Английский перевод рассказов, выполненный Констанс Гарнетт, снабжен постраничными, в большей степени культурологическими, комментариями. Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов, носителям языка и всем любителям русской классической литературы.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман в стихах А. С. Пушкина "Евгений Онегин", одно из самых значительных произведе¬ний русской литературы. Критик В. Г. Белинский назвал его "энциклопедией русской жизни". Переводчик Г. Сполдинг составил подробный комментарий реалий русской жизни.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман великого русского писателя и поэта М.Ю. Лермонтова "Герой нашего времени", написанный в 1838-1840 годах. Печорин — представитель последекабристского поколения, образ главного героя раскрывает особенности современной ему эпохи.

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) is a Russian writer and playwright, one of the most significant and well-known Russian writers and thinkers in the world. Gorky was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Having begun with romantically inspired novels, songs in prose and short stories, Gorky then turned to dramaturgy. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he became famous for his works in a revolutionary spirit. Gorky is also the author of cycles of essays, autobiographical novels, plays, two major novels, and documentary stories. Maxim Gorky is in fact a pen name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, which first appeared in 1892 as a signature for the short story Makar Chudra. .This collection of short stories, named after the famous story Old Izergil, presents, perhaps, the best-known stories of Gorky, which reveal his many-sided writing talent. The main pathos of the writer's works is the dream of "new people", fearless and free, possessing the highest intellectual and physical abilities, able to achieve overarching goals beyond the possible, including even immortality. .

This edition presents the sixteen tales of the original collection ranging from well-known and acknowledged gems such as Agafya and On the Road to others which will be fresh even to many seasoned readers of Chekhov in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin, providing an invaluable glimpse into a pivotal moment in the writer s literary career. In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1887. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful Antosha Chekhonte, author of slight comic sketches, to the mature master of the short-story genre.

Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania - epitomized by the arrogant and incompetent director Ivan Vasilyevich - absurdity gradually gives way to tragedy. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. . . . . . .

Александр Николаевич Островский (1823-1886) – великий русский драматург, основоположник русского реалистического театра, создавший 47 пьес с участием 728 персонажей. Его произведения по сей день не сходят с театральной сцены, многие из них экранизированы. В книгу вошли одни из лучших пьес автора – «Бесприданница» и «Доходное место». Сюжет драмы «Бесприданница» вращается вокруг красивой, но бедной девушки, Ларисы Огудаловой, которая отчаянно ищет любовь в мире, полном жадности, несправедливости, ревности и тщеславия. Основной темой комедии «Доходное место» является взяточничество. В этом произведении Островский исследовал природу коррупции, пытался узнать мысли взяточников и их оправдания. Хотя пьеса была написана более полутора веков назад, она по-прежнему актуальна для современной аудитории. Перевод на английский язык с комментариями выполнен американским ученым, специалистом в области русского языка и литературы Норманом Хенли.

Английский язык. Русская классика. Стильное подарочное издание одного из главных для русской культуры произведений об одиночестве, любви и долге. В издании печатается перевод на английский язык Генри Сполдинга, впервые познакомившего западного читателя с произведением. Книга проиллюстрирована утонченными работами Е. Самокиш-Судковской. Подарочное издание украсит любую коллекцию благодаря современной обложке с рельефными элементами, аккуратному блеску лака, ярким форзацам, а также стильному оформлению внутри, иллюстрациям и удобной для чтения лентой-закладкой.

Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere charts the life of the French playwright, from his humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Moliere and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakov’s eccentric and satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically captures the genius of Moliere, while revealing another aspect of his own self.

Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illigitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna - as he struggles to find his place in society and "become a Rothschild" against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism. Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent - here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien - shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind.

В сборник вошли повести и рассказы Н.С. Лескова, русского классика, подарившего мировой литературе "Очарованного странника" и "Леди Макбет Мценского уезда", "Тупейного художника" и "Левшу". .

В предлагаемую вниманию читателей книгу пошли две знаменитые повести великого русского поэта и писателя А.С.Пушкина (1799-1837). "Пиковая дама" и "Капитанская дочка" с комментариями переводчика.

This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin’s prose fiction.

New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece. First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman and the reproaches of his friend, the hard-working Stoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments. Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness.

В книгу вошли замечательные произведения русского писателя Александра Грина "Алые паруса", "Искатели приключений", "Корабли в Лиссе", переведенные на английский язык.

Великий русский писатель Ф. М. Достоевский (1821-1881) известен во всем мире прежде всего благодаря "великому пятикнижию" - романам "Преступление и наказание", "Идиот", "Братья Карамазовы", "Бесы", "Подросток". Пред¬лагаем вниманию англоязычных читателей повесть Достоев¬ского "Дядюшкин сон" в переводе Фредерика Уишоу.

Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers - characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human - it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.

Among the most famous works by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) are his narrative poems. The book we offer to attention of our readers contains three of them — The Bronze Horseman, Ruslan and Ludmila, and The Bakchesarian Fountain. The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale was written in 1833, while the action takes place during the great flood of 1824. The Bronze Horseman is considered to be Pushkin’s best-known narrative poem and is one of the reasons why he is called the “founder of modern Russian literature.” Its impact on Russian literature and culture altogether was so great that the equestrian statue of Peter the Great, which plays a dramatic role in the plot of the poem, became since then known as the Bronze Horseman. Ruslan and Ludmila (published in 1820) is an epic fairy tale inspired by bylinas — the ancient Russian epic poems. It tells the story of Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, who had been abducted by an evil wizard and of the brave knight Ruslan who tried to find and rescue her. Pushkin wrote The Bakchesarian Fountain: A Tale of the Tauride (published in 1824) after having visited the Fountain of Tears at the Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray in 1820. There he heard the legend of the 18th century telling that the famous fountain was placed by Khan Giray in honour of the Polish Princess whom he loved and whom Khan’s concubine was jealous of.

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his secret lover. As the two men renew their acquaintance, Velchaninov becomes aware that Trusotskys child is, in fact, his own daughter. From then on, the destinies of the two old friends become intertwined as they engage - at turns repelled and attracted by each other - in a dangerous game of cat and mouse that will lead to a final dramatic confrontation.

In Bulgakovs Diaboliad, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.

Роман-антиутопия Евгения Замятина "Мы", написанный в 1920 году, известен читателям благодаря гротескному исполнению идеи социализма, элементам блестящей сатиры, цель которого - заставить людей задуматься о том, к чему ведет слепое поклонение идеологии. .Действие романа разворачивается приблизительно в тридцать втором веке и описывает общество жесткого тоталитарного контроля над личностью. .

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the town.A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls has been revered since its original publication in 1842 as one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius. .

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief...

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a dramatic encounter with a prostitute.Подробнее: https://skidka-msk.ru/tovar/1967953_notes-from-underground.html.

The Acronis Chronicles is an engaging fiction story about adventures of a young girl named Acronis and her brother, a pilot in racing sports. In the book, Acronis encounters a mystery related to the misfortunes of her brother’s racing teams. Her ambitious sleuthing helps authorities capture an international criminal.

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary nobody - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy. Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.

Includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works. Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. As he succumbs to the temptations of the roulette table, he finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with Polina, the woman he unrequitedly loves. With an unforgettable cast of fellow gamblers and figures from European high society, this darkly comic novel of greed and self-destruction reveals Dostoevsky at his satirical and psychological best. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .