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Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions once they are unleashed by the adoration of Count Vronsky. Having defied the rules of 19th century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price. Human nature, with all its failings, is the fabric of which this great and passionate work is composed.

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel, considered to be the culmination of his life's work, "The Brothers Karamazov" is the story of the murder of Father Karamazov, whose four sons are all to some degree complicit in the crime. Within the context of this crime story evolves a brilliant philosophical debate of religion, reason, liberty, and the nature of guilt in society. Considered by Sigmund Freud as "The most magnificent novel ever written", the excellent translation of Constance Garnett is presented here in this edition of "The Brothers Karamazov".

Три сестры — одно из самых известных произведений Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904), известного драматурга и классика мировой литературы. В центре сюжета оказывается судьба трех сестер Прозоровых — Ольги, Маши и Ирины. Их надежды и мечты разбиваются вдребезги, все они — обречены. Творение Чехова пленяет описанием угла основные персонажи внутреннего мира, что острые пьесы с тяжелым звуком. Чехов Антон Павлович — автор знаменитых рассказов, повести "Палата № 6", пьес "Вишнёвый". "сад" и "Чайка", а также такие: Три сестра, "Дама с собачкой", "Толстый и тонкий".

Герой нашего времени — единственный завершенный роман Михаила Лермонтова. Это социально-психологическая драма, в которой сюжет отходит на задний план, уступая все внимание главному герою — необычному, зачастую неприятному, сомнительному, непонятному, запутавшемуся в своих мыслях и чувствах, а потому запутавшему всех остальных Григорию Печорину. Вдохновленный "Евгением Онегиным", Лермонтов собрал "портрет, составленный из пороков всего нашего поколения, в полном их развитии".

Честный вор — произведение классика русской литературы и одного из лучших романистов мирового уровня Ф. М. Достоевского (1821–1881). Понятия честный и вор несовместимы. Однако автор достигает эффекта неожиданности. Сначала заявляет, что честных воров не бывает, но затем идет рассказ о честном человеке, который таковым был, пока не стал вором. Писатель исследует психологическую природу людей. Достоевский создал немало других замечательных повестей и романов — Идиот, Братья Карамазовы, Бесы, Бедные люди, Униженные и оскорбленные, Игрок, Белые ночи, Кроткая, Мальчик у Христа на елке, Вечный муж.

Los hermanos Karamazov de Fiodor Dostoyevski es una obra maestra que profundiza en temas como la fe, la duda, el libre albedrío y la naturaleza del mal, a través de la compleja relación entre los miembros de la familia Karamazov en la Rusia del siglo XIX. Dostoyevski, uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura universal, utiliza esta novela para explorar las luchas morales y los conflictos internos, ofreciendo una rica reflexión sobre la condición humana, la moralidad y la búsqueda de la verdad en un contexto de intensos debates filosóficos y teológicos.

Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.

Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol is widely believed to have led the realist revolution in Russian literature. His surreal, absurdist satires liberated comedy from its sentimental traditions and influenced writers both within Russia and worldwide, among them Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka and Flannery O’Connor.

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden, 1831 is the third tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola Lysenko. This story comes from the unnamed story-teller (who was previously responsible for "The Fair at Sorochyntsi"). In this tale, a young Cossack named Levko, the son of the mayor, is in love with Hanna. He comes to her house to talk about marriage and mentions that his father is not pleased with the idea, though he doesn't say anything directly and merely ignores him.

The Cloak (sometimes translated as Overcoat) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department for his hard work.

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy cities of Russia. The Mantle, which is listed among his masterpieces, describes how Russian bureaucracy turns everyone into a ghost of each other. It tells the tragicomic story of a poor low-ranking official named Akakiy Akakiyevich Bashmachkin, a faint character living on the margins of society who spends all his time diligently copying documents.

These masterly poems span the whole of Nabokov's career from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. The works are newly translated by Dmitiri Nabokov, and include "The University Poem", an extraordinary autobiographical poem in which Nabokov recalls his life in Cambridge, with its crooked alleys and age-old gates, teas at the vicar's and British girls. Included to are such poems as "To Russia" ("Will you leave me alone! I implore you!), the enchanting "Eve", and verse about America, sport, love, and poetry itself.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the listener through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for 20 years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.

The book probes the possible roles of four brothers in the unresolved murder of their father, Fyodor Karamazov. At the same time, it carefully explores the personalities and inclinations of the brothers themselves. Their psyches together represent the full spectrum of human nature, the continuum of faith and doubt. Ultimately, this novel seeks to understand the real meaning of faith and existence and includes much beneficial philosophical and spiritual discussion that moves the reader towards faith.

Konstantin Paustovsky was a Russian writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965, 1966,1967,1968. Paustovsky began writing while still in Gymnasium. His first works were imitative poetry but he restricted his writing to prose after Ivan Bunin wrote in a letter to him: "I think that your sphere, your real poetry, is prose. It is here, if you are determined enough, that I am sure you can achieve something significant."

It's a touching tale of a young man who finds himself without shelter or food on a cold Autumn Night in Moscow. The strong opening lines of the narrator set the stage nicely: "Once in the autumn I happened to be in a very unpleasant and inconvenient position. In the town where I had just arrived and where I knew not a soul, I found myself without a farthing in my pocket and without a night's lodging." Scavenging for something to eat around the "steamship wharves," he encounters another poor wretch, the young woman, Natasha, in similar circumstance if for different reasons.

Князь Святослав - четвертый роман известного писателя Бориса Васильева о правителях Древней Руси (в этот цикл также входят романы Вещий Олег, Ольга, королева русов и Александр Невский). "Иду на вы!" - этот боевой клич Святослава стал на века символом мужества в борьбе с врагами Отчизны. Сильный и прозорливый правитель, он вошел в историю как отважный воин, победивший хазар, успешно воевавший с могущественной Византией и присоединивший к Великому Киевскому княжеству множество земель.

Совдетство. Узник пятого волнореза – продолжение цикла "вспоминальной" прозы известного русского писателя Юрия Полякова о своем советском прошлом. На страницах книги мы вновь встречаемся с нашим давним знакомцем, московским школьником Юрой Полуяковым. Летом 1969 года он вместе со своими родственниками отдыхает "дикарем" в абхазском городке Новый Афон. Подростка ждут солнце, море, горы, увлекательная подводная охота, а также серьезная, очень опасная проверка сноровки и мужества, придуманная его местными друзьями.