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Signet books CQ442
Everyman's library volume no. 254
Vintage classics
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"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate...

2) Crime and punishment

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Greenwich House classics library
Programmed classics
Greatest masterpieces of Russian literature
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...

3) Ten days that shook the world

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Reed, John

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Vintage Russian library volume V-719
Penguin modern classics
Modern library of the world's best books

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Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the revolution he witnessed. Like no other work, it places the reader shoulder to shoulder with the people's militias, factory committees, propagandists and crowds which thronged St Petersburg's squares to protest,...

4) The possessed

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Modern library of the world's best books
Greatest masterpieces of Russian literature
Signet classic volume CJ1006

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Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In contrast to Dostoevsky's savage portrait of these radicals and the violent ideas that have possessed...

5) The brothers Karamazov

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Blue ribbon books
Everyman's library volume 70
Barnes and Noble classics
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...

6) The house of the dead

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Greatest masterpieces of Russian literature
Evergreen book E-48

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7) The crown and the crucible

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Phillips, Michael R

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Russians volume 1

8) A house divided

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Phillips, Michael R

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Russians volume 2

9) Travail and triumph

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Phillips, Michael R

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Russians volume 3

10) Heirs of the motherland

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Russians volume 4

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TCG Classic Russian Drama
TCG Translations
Easy Classics Epic Collection
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Eighteen years after his daughter's birth, Count Dmitri Remizov returns to Russia from exile to find his only child. But Mariana, who was raised as a peasant, is hesitant to take her place in Imperial Russia. Meanwhile, Sergei and Anna must decide whether to risk emerging from hiding. Will they find a way to reunite their families and claim their heritage?

11) The Three Sisters

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Chekhov, Anton

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Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success,...

12) The dawning of deliverance

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Russians volume 5

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Though she is the daughter of a princess, Mariana was raised as a peasant and decides not to take up aristocratic life. Trained as a nurse, she goes to the front lines instead where she's confronted with the realities of war--and encounters a man who once betrayed her. Can Mariana learn to trust him now? And will she and her family survive a dangerous new threat?

13) White nights, red morning

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Russians volume 6

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As Russia plunges from World War I into revolution, the tragic events of Bloody Sunday leave their stain upon the nation--and the Fedorcenko family. After a devastating loss, the Fedorcenkos struggle with their grief and find their loyalties in the conflict divided. Will their bond be strong enough to endure the trials of civil war?

14) Passage into light

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Russians volume 7

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In 1917, Russia lies in ashes. The tsar has been imprisoned, and the government remains unstable. Amid the turmoil, Anna Fedorcenko's sons, Andrei and Yuri, face the consequences of their personal and political choices. As they gather what's left of their lives, they will need the faith and love that have become the Fedorcenko and Burenin legacy more than ever.

15) The impossible journey

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Whelan, Gloria

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St. Petersburg
Russian

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In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.

16) Russian IA: The Complete Course, Beginning, Part A

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This comprehensive beginner course consists of Part A and B. At the end of Part B, you will have reached high beginner conversation level. Learn at your own pace, comfortably and conveniently. No memorization drills. This Language Program was developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. His research led him to the realization that the most important use of memory is in language learning. Based on this, Dr. Pimsleur designed a learning

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17) Russian IB: The Complete Course, Beginning, Part B

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18) Russian IIA: The Complete Course, Intermediate, A

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This course builds on The Complete Course I and consists of Part A and B. At the end of Part B, you will have reached intermediate conversation level. Learn at your own pace, comfortably and conveniently. No memorization drills. This Language Program was developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. His research led him to the realization that the most important use of memory is in language learning. Based on this, Dr. Pimsleur designed

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19) Russian IIB: The Complete Course, Intermediate, B

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20) Russian IIIA: The Complete Course, High Intermediate A

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