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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

    $12.59 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • From the Front Line

    Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    War reporting from one of Russia's greatest writers, an indispensable record of World War II and the Eastern Front.June 22, 1941: Launch of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Vasily Grossman soon begins a new career as a war reporter.During the next four years, he covered all the major battles of the Eastern Front, from Stalingrad to Berlin, writing brutally vivid reports that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.39 USD

  • Life and Fate

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler ...
    A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Greatest Novels & Stories for Young Women

    Including the Biographies of the Most Famous, Defiant and Influential Women in History

    by Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Johanna Spyri, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, J. M. Barrie, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George MacDonald, Gene Stratton-Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eleanor H. Porter, L.T. Meade, Jean Webster, Dorothy Canfield, Angela Brazil, Susan Coolidge, Carolyn Wells, Martha Finley, Susan Warner, Mary Mapes Dodge, Selma Lagerlöf, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, E. Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Madeleine l'Engle ...
    In 'The Greatest Novels & Stories for Young Women,' readers are presented with a rich tapestry of narratives that explore the intricacies of life through a female lens, all crafted by some of the most iconic authors in literature. This anthology spans several centuries of writing, featuring everything from the grounded, poignant narratives of everyday life to the fantastical realms of adventure ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Every Girl's Library - 50 Classics in One Volume

    The Greatest Novels & Stories for Young Women, Including the Biographies of the Most Famous, Defiant and Influential Women in History

    by Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Johanna Spyri, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, J. M. Barrie, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George MacDonald, Gene Stratton-Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eleanor H. Porter, L.T. Meade, Jean Webster, Dorothy Canfield, Angela Brazil, Susan Coolidge, Carolyn Wells, Martha Finley, Susan Warner, Mary Mapes Dodge, Selma Lagerlöf, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, E. Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Madeleine l'Engle ...
    e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the most revered and influential stories and biographies for the heroines of the future: Novels: Little Women Anne of Green Gables Series Rose in Bloom Pride and Prejudice Emma Jane Eyre Heidi Emily of New Moon Alice in Wonderland The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Secret Garden A Little Princess Peter and Wendy The Girl from the Marsh ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

    Edited by Robert Chandler, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, Boris Dralyuk ...
    An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski.In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD