Best Russian Literature Books
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1. Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage
English
565 pages
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller.
“The best (translation) currently available”-Washington Post Book World.
2. The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author: by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
0061253715
English
704 pages
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.George F. KennanIt is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.
David Remnick, The New YorkerSolzhenitsyn’s masterpiece…. The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
3. War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Leo Tolstoy
Vintage
English
1296 pages
From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy’s masterwork. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.
A s Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgroundspeasants and nobility, civilians and soldiersas they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most movingand humanfigures in world literature.
4. Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage
English
136 pages
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.
5. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Berkley
English
208 pages
The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp.
So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength. First published in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia.
Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization. Includes an Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenkoand an Afterword by Eric Bogosian
6. Anna Karenina
Author: by Leo Tolstoy
English
864 pages
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The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.
Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel’s seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy’s writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes.
7. The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Author: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage
English
656 pages
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of 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.
8. Healing HER: Poetry that nourishes the soul through feminine energy
Author: by Sez Kristiansen
English
95 pages
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Over 15,000 paperback copies sold worldwide. “Prepare yourself for wonderful words of support and encouragement. What a treasure this book is to be read again and again.”Feminine energy has been used for centuries to heal the soul. It is a conduit for self-love to return back into your life and heal you through intuitive alignment.
This book is a collection of intention-based poetry and prose that will align you with your own self-healing superpowers. By intuitively resonating with the nurturing qualities of the feminine psyche, you will be able to recalibrate your mind, body and soul back into a nourishing state of wholeness, from which even the deepest wounds can be healed.
This book was created as a conduit for your own journey back to self-love – and allows you to hold space for the darkness, those peaty, blackened soils that provide the most richness for personal growth. Through this book, you will engage in the emotions that do not only bear witness your pain – but show you a way through them, and to the other side.
9. Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)
Author: by Vasily Grossman
NYRB Classics
English
896 pages
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 Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.
Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves. This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.
10. War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: by Leo Tolstoy
Oxford University Press
English
1392 pages
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy’s death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion ofRussia.
Balls and soires, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles, the quiet moments of everyday life-all in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The Maudes’ translation of Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece has long beenconsidered the best English version, and now for the first time it has been revised to bring it fully into line with modern approaches to the text.
French passages are restored, Anglicization of Russian names removed, and outmoded expressions updated. A new introduction by Amy Mandelker considersthe novel’s literary and historical context, the nature of the work, and Tolstoy’s artistic and philosophical aims. New, expanded notes provide historical background and identifications, as well as insight into Russian life and society.
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In Memory of Memory
Author: by Maria Stepanova
New Directions
English
400 pages
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writersWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia.
Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W.G.
Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various formsessay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documentsStepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
12. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Author: by Dr. Seuss
English
40 pages
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
13. The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller
Author: by Nino Haratischvili
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Scribe (October 1, 2019)
October 1, 2019
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness.
But she was wrong.’ At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution.
A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the centre of the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg.
Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century. Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections.
14. War and Peace (Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition)
Author: by Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics
English
1424 pages
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Tolstoy’s great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSet against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, War and Peacepresented here in the first new English translation in forty yearsis often considered the greatest novel ever written.
At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent.
This edition includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries. Praise for Antony Brigg’s translation of War and Peace: “The best translation so far of Tolstoy’s masterpiece into English.” -Robert A.
15. On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss)
Author: by Dr. Suess
Random House
English
64 pages
Illus.In color.”Children will be intrigued and delighted with the nonsensical alphabet that begins after Z.”Format: Hardcover, 60pp. ISBN: 0394800842 Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Pub. Date: May 1971 Recommend Age Range: 4 to 7
16. Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: by Leo Tolstoy
Oxford University Press
English
896 pages
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her.
The loveaffair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s.
The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin’s estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom,the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving.
Rosamund Bartlett’s translation conveys Tolstoy’s precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.
