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  • Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

    by Robert Chandler ...
    Series series
    From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Railway

    by Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler ...
    Description“In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon ... Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside and on top with infidels shouting and waving their hands. ‘The End of the World!’ thought both Mahmud-Hodja the Sunni and Djebral the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short Life of Pushkin

    by Robert Chandler ...
    Series Book 1 - Pushkin Blues
    A short yet fascinating account of Russia's most celebrated writer.In Robert Chandler's exquisite biography, literary giant Alexander Pushkin, lauded as the Russian Shakespeare, is examined as writer, lover and public figure. Chandler explores his relationship to politics and provides a fascinating glimpse of the turbulent history Pushkin lived through. The book acts as a succinct guide to anybody ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Stalingrad

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

    'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The People Immortal

    by Vasily Grossman, Julia Volohova ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    The first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on what a war novel can be, and each extraordinary. A common set of characters links Stalingrad and Life and Fate, but Stalingrad is not only a moving and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Clockmaker

    The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville

    by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Robert McDougall ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    Sam Slick of Slickville, Connecticut, is a Yankee clock-peddler who accompanies a visiting English gentleman on an unforgettable tour of early nineteenth-century Nova Scotia. His shrewd observations and witty commentaries make up the thirty-three sketches of The Clockmaker.First serialized in 1835 and 1836 and then published together in late 1836 in response to public demand, the sketches of The ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me

    The Best of Teffi

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Rose France, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Chevengur

    by Andrey Platonov ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    A sort of Soviet Don Quixote, this novel about a craftsman who wanders the U.S.S.R. hoping to ease human misery with his inventions is considered one of the most important novels of the Soviet era, and is now available in its full version in English for the first time.Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardor and despair. Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Other Worlds

    Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler ...
    Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays.Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Shadow World

    Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam

    by Robert Chandler ...
    America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn't just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it's a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world. These three enemies of America are separate, but still cooperate -- and in his stunning new book, Shadow World, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Everything Flows

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD