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  • The Fatal Eggs

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s poultry stocks, Persikov’s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand…Set in 1928 ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Devils

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The White Guard

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 191819, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-ranging and destructive ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Black Snow

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of 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 tyrannical director Ivan ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Uncle’s Dream: New Translation

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Three Years

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Series series Alma Classics 101 Pages
    On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father’s Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple’s relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Government Inspector: New Translation

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover government inspector is about to make a visit, they face a mad dash to cover their tracks. Soon, the news that a suspicious person has recently arrived from St Petersburg and is staying in a local inn produces a series of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants

    Newly Translated and Annotated

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic tour de force. The ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher.An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Pictures from Italy (Annotated Edition)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments and novelties around him, the celebrated author of Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol captured his experiences and impressions in vivid detail. The ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them - such as 'The Cockroach' and 'A Dissolute Man' - published for the first time in the English language. Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Diaboliad and Other Stories

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    In Bulgakov’s ‘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, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD