false 3357 17879 0679420290 9780679420293 31 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17879.Crime_and_Punishment 4.30 394 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1866 153 0140449175 9780140449174 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156882184m/153.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156882184s/153.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153.Anna_Karenina 4.13 564
This new translation has been acclaimed as the definitive version of Tolstoy’s masterpiece. It also contains an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley.

WINNER OF THE PEN/BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB TRANSLATION PRIZE

(from book jacket)]]> 85 4.01 57248 6770 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 21660 4.13 2167 273 1873 4934 0374528373 9780374528379 1429 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203179283m/4934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203179283s/4934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov 4.30 13596 The Brothers Karamozov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamozov and his three sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual strivings, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky's prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 3139317 4.30 13601 1429 1880 6063537 0007225350 9780739495131 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230998762m/6063537.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230998762s/6063537.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6063537.War_and_Peace 4.67 6 85 4.01 57248 6770 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1869 1433780 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1433780.The_Master_and_Margarita 0.0 0 The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.

Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"

Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park

This edition was translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.]]> 3873 4.23 15208 1675 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1967 279770 0143105000 9780143105008 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181144746m/279770.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181144746s/279770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279770.The_Three_Musketeers 4.38 77 The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas's historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard toKing Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue—and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.

Richard Pevear, part of the husband/wife team responsible for award-winning translations of classic Russian literature, provides a flavorful and faithful rendition that conveys all of the wit, romance, and rollicking pace of the original French. Pevear also includes an edifying introduction to Dumas, his world, and his take on history, as well as explanatory notes, making this the edition par excellence for a new generation of readers.
]]> 4785 4.06 97482 5566 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1844 12854 0375702245 9780375702242 86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237380178m/12854.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237380178s/12854.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12854.The_Idiot 4.17 677 The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1869 19108 1400043190 9781400043194 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19108.Dead_Souls 4.13 46 Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature–a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.

Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials–all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is the wily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in “dead souls”–deceased serfs who still represent profit to those clever enough to trade in them.

This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel’s lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.]]> 232932 4.09 7936 683 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1842 49455 067973452X 9780679734529 112 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237381072m/49455.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237381072s/49455.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49455.Notes_from_Underground 4.10 1518
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1864 5695 0679734511 9780679734512 112 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237384386m/5695.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237384386s/5695.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5695.Demons 4.19 1384 Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamozov and his most ferociously funny. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons (which earlier translators erroneously titled The Possessed) is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. And, like all of Dostoevsky's novels, it is also a riot of literary voices, whose profusion, energy, and variety are rendered wonderfully in this new English version by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1872 7191093 0307273326 9780307273321 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7191093-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories 0.0 0 85 4.01 57248 6770 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1886 252981 0375706151 9780375706158 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173157860m/252981.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173157860s/252981.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252981.The_Collected_Tales_of_Nikolai_Gogol 4.40 495
More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.

These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years--one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.]]> 232932 4.09 7936 683 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1836 5697 140003292X 9781400032921 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541711m/5697.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541711s/5697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5697.The_Complete_Short_Novels 4.36 304
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.

The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 7421 4.01 11827 820 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 2004 5700 0375719008 9780375719004 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237982656m/5700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237982656s/5700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5700.The_Adolescent 3.95 276 The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1875 5698 0375719016 9780375719011 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237982349m/5698.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237982349s/5698.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5698.The_Double_The_Gambler 3.90 223 The Double and The Gambler.

The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1846 5686 0553214446 9780553214444 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541684m/5686.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541684s/5686.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5686.The_Eternal_Husband_and_Other_Stories 4.00 210 Along with "The Eternal Husband" is "A Nasty Anecdote" (1862), a satire on the "reform period of Russia," which portrays a high-ranking official who is convinced that "humaneness" will unite all people in a regenerated society. The other three stories, "Bobok" (1873), "The Meek One" (1876) and "The Dream of A Ridiculous Man" (1877), are taken from The Diary of a Writer, which Dostoevsky published between the completion of Demons and The Brothers Karamazov. Together they represent the culmination and final synthesis of Dostoevsky's philosophical ideas.]]> 3356 4.14 82595 6784 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 1917 5696 0140446427 9780140446425 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541707m/5696.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541707s/5696.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5696.What_Is_Art_ 3.76 33 What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential work both criticizes the elitist nature of art in nineteenth-century Western society, and rejects the idea that its sole purpose should be the creation of beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire and Wagner are all vigorously condemned, as Tolstoy explores what he believes to be the spiritual role of the artist - arguing that true art must work with religion and science as a force for the advancement of mankind.]]> 85 4.01 57248 6770 3358 4.23 29854 3533 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1930 6522951 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6522951-aias 0.0 0 Brought boldly to life by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear's translation and contextualized by Herbert Golder's eloquent introduction, this early Sophoclean tragedy tells the story of the Homeric hero better known as Ajax, who was second only to Achilles among the Greek warriors. In Greek tradition, Aias figures as the archaic warrior who dies in shame after his betrayal by the Greeks. Sophocles turns tradition inside out, portraying Aias' suicide not as a disgrace but as heroism. He endows Aias suicide with a meaning radically different from previous versions of the Aias myth--Aias is not the hero whom time has passed by, but rather the man who steps beyond time. Most previous versions and interpretations have equivocated over Sophocles' bold vision. This edition of Aias translates precisely that transformation of the hero from the bygone figure to the man who transcends time.]]> 1002 3.69 20760 799 2952037 0.0 0 0 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1920 6706748 0307268810 9780307268815 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6706748-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories 4.25 36 War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.

Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively drawn. They include The Prisoner of the Caucasus, inspired by Tolstoy’s experiences as a soldier in the Chechen War, and one of only two of his works that Tolstoy himself considered “good art”; Hadji Murat, the novella Harold Bloom called “the best story in the world,” featuring the real-life war hero Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who ravaged his Russian occupiers only to defect to the Russian side after a falling-out with his own commander; The Devil, a tale of sexual obsession based on Tolstoy’s relationship with a married peasant woman on his estate in the years before his marriage; and the celebrated The Death of Ivan Ilyich, an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption.

Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation captures the richness, immediacy, and multiplicity of Tolstoy’s language, and reveals the author as a passionate moral guide, an unflinching seeker of truth, and, ultimately, a creator of enduring and universal art.]]> 85 4.01 57248 6770 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 2008 4514035 0399219056 9780399219054 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4514035.Kashtanka_Little_Chestnut 0.0 0 7421 4.01 11827 820 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1991 5694 1570754365 9781570754364 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541706m/5694.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541706s/5694.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5694.Mother_Maria_Skobtsova_Essential_Writings 4.00 9 3871 4.00 9 4 3357 4.23 30135 3582 2003 224197 0374323399 9780374323394 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855374m/224197.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855374s/224197.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224197.First_Second 4.38 8 131195 4.49 354 52 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1996 2483153 0955296315 9780955296314 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2483153.Translating_Music 3.67 3 3357 4.23 30135 3582 2007 224196 0811205479 9780811205474 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224196.The_Gods 0.0 0 131194 4.14 14 0 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1974 7052180 0307568288 9780307568281 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7052180-selected-stories-of-anton-chekov 4.50 2 7421 4.01 11827 820 3357 4.23 30135 3582 3358 4.23 29854 3533 2009 224187 0027739201 9780027739206 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364m/224187.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172855364s/224187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224187.Our_King_Has_Horns 5.00 1 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1987 5020987 095588960X 9780955889608 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5020987.The_Cahiers_Series 5.00 1 3357 4.23 30135 3582 10284 3.62 125 15 13093 3.67 4496 579 27427 3.95 2105 308 198398 3.92 12 1 327755 3.93 15 2 1699631 5.00 1 0 2008 224175 0027739104 9780027739107 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223563483m/224175.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223563483s/224175.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224175.Mister_Cat_and_a_Half 3.00 1 3357 4.23 30135 3582 658140 3.47 15 8 1986 224186 069101342X 9780691013428 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224186.Night_Talk_and_Other_Poems 3.00 1 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1977 224213 0686344537 9780686344537 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224213.Exchanges 0.0 0 3357 4.23 30135 3582 1982