Results for: books tagged ‘Russia’
Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Starting near the roof of the world on the Soviet Union’s border with China, Geoffrey Moorhouse’s journey through Central Asia winds across mountains, steppes and desert as well as the ... More
Babylon: Victor Pelevin
As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes - and that's before the cocaine kicks ... More
Chekhov's Ivanov: Tom Stoppard
Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy and optimism, in love with his wife and working hard. Now, for no reason he can understand, Ivanov ... More
Chekhov's The Seagull: Christopher Hampton
I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I ... More
The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov and Trevor Griffiths
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories: Ivan Turgenev
‘That night I went home to my lodgings in a state of perfect ecstasy ... I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head. ... More
Dream Tales and Prose Poems: Ivan Turgenev
Young Muscovite bachelor Yakov Aratov lives in contented solitude, until the arrival in town of the dazzling actress Clara Militch: ‘She was all fire, all passion, and all contradiction; revengeful ... More
Dying For It: Moira Buffini
Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope for self-respect disappears, Semyon decides to take his own life. But word gets out and he finds himself ... More
Fathers and Children: Ivan Turgenev
First translated by Constance Garnett in 1895 Fathers and Children was published in 1862 in The Russian Messenger and provoked immediate controversy for its portrayal of the rise of the ... More
Futility: William Gerhardie
This is the first novel by William Gerhardie, first published in 1922, and it was made famous by H. G. Wells, who described it as 'true, devastating - a wonderful ... More
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