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Books by Robert Chandler






Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida(1st Edition)
(Penguin Classics)
by Robert Chandler Various, Alexander Pushkin
Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044846-7, ISBN: 0-14-044846-2

"From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included here are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature--including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn--alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. ..."






The Railway(2nd Edition)
by Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by Random House Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-946613-0, ISBN: 0-09-946613-9

"All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond (Catherine Lockerbie Sunday Herald ) A wonderfully engaging novel (Melissa McClements Financial Times ) Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering of The Railway perfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose (Chandrahas Choudhury Daily Telegraph ) Imagine Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude on the empty plains of cent ..."






The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry(1st Edition)
(Penguin Classics)
by Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, Penguin Classics
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-119830-9, ISBN: 0-14-119830-3

" An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth c ..."






Portraits without Frames
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Lev Ozerov, Maria Bloshteyn, Irina Mashinski, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, Boris, Irina Mashinska
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-268-6, ISBN: 1-68137-268-1

"Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century."We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear." Lev Ozerov (1914-1996), born Lev Goldberg, was a ..."






Stalingrad
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Yury Bit-Yunan
Paperback, 1,088 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-327-0, ISBN: 1-68137-327-0

"The prequel to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the 20th Century, now in English for the first time. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet ..."






Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
(Penguin Classics)
by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin, Olga Meerson, Penguin Classics
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-144223-5, ISBN: 0-14-144223-9

"For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years   In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Some of the stories here were collected by ..."






Brief Lives
Alexander Pushkin
by Robert Chandler, Stanley Mitchell, Antony Wood
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Hesperus Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-912-4, ISBN: 1-84391-912-5

"Alexander Pushkin is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest poet, and through his poems as well as his experimentation with other genres—dramas, short stories, prose novels—he influenced generations of Russian and international writers. This exquisite biography examines Pushkin as writer, lover, and public figure, exploring his relationship with politics and providing a fascinating glimpse of the turbulent history that surrounded Pu ..."






Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Selected Stories
by Robert Nikolai Leskov, Donald Chandler, Robert Chandler, Donald Rayfield
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2020 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-490-1, ISBN: 1-68137-490-0

"A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.Leskov is the strangest the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller," in which Benjamin contrast the plotty machinations of the modern nove ..."






High and Mighty(1st Edition)
Select Sketches About the Deschutes Country
by Keith Clark, Donna Clark, Samuel N. Dicken, Phil Brogan, Robert Chandler, Priscilla Knuth, Jr. Cogswell Phil, Thomas Vaughan, Joseph Vanwormer, Harold C. Smith
Paperback, 335 Pages, Published 2002 by Oregon Historical Society Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-87595-103-4, ISBN: 0-87595-103-1

"Jim Blakely's ranch. When news of the killings reached Prineville, members of the vigilance committee, and others, went looking for Langdon, who surrendered finally to Blakely. At Prineville, in custody of deputy Luckey, Langdon was shot and ..."






Life and Fate(1st Edition)
by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Edward Lyndoe, Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
Paperback, 880 Pages, Published 1995 by Harvill
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-019-7, ISBN: 1-86046-019-4

"VERY GOOD LARGE SOFT COVER, CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. Paperback: 880 pages Publisher: Harvill Press; 1st Edition Thus edition (1995) Language: English Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.7 x 8.5 inches Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds 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 e ..."






The Road(1st Edition)
Stories, Journalism, and Essays (New York Review Books Classics)
by Vasily/ Ch Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Mukovnikova, Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman, Yury Bit-Yunan
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Nyrb Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-361-9, ISBN: 1-59017-361-9

""The Road "brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of "Life and Fate, " providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev," a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as "Mama," based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror b ..."






Happy Moscow
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Andrey Platonov, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Nadya Bourova
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2012 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-585-9, ISBN: 1-59017-585-9

"An NYRB Classics OriginalMoscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin has proclaimed that “Life has become better! Life has become merrier!” and Moscow herself is poised to join the Soviet elite. But her ambitions are thwarted when a freak accident propels her flaming from the sky. A new, stranger lif ..."






Everything Flows(1st Edition)
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Vasily Semyonovich Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan, Василий Семенович Гроссман
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Nyrb Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-328-2, ISBN: 1-59017-328-7

"A New York Review Books Original "Everything Flows" is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan's story is only one among many. ..."






Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk(Updated)
(Hesperus Classics)
by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov, Gilbert Adair, Robert Chandler
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2003 by Hesperus Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-068-8, ISBN: 1-84391-068-3

"In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has d ..."






Life and Fate(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
Hardcover, 880 Pages, Published 1986 by Harper & Row
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-015365-6, ISBN: 0-06-015365-2

"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 Germ ..."






Managing Risks for Corporate Integrity(1st Edition)
How to Survive An Ethical Misconduct Disaster
by Robert Chandler, Lynn Brewer, O. C. Ferrell, William Ed. Ferrell
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-324-20351-6, ISBN: 0-324-20351-9

"Ethical misconduct can shipwreck your company. Avoid scandal with MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER. Inside, you'll discover powerful insight into dealing with, and preventing, ethical disasters. You'll not only learn how to identify, illustrate, and define ethical misconduct; you'll get the expert's guide to preventing, mitigating, coping with, responding to, and surviving ethical dis ..."






Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays
(Russian Library)
by Andrei Platonov, Robert Chandler, Susan Larsen, Jesse Irwin, Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18128-0, ISBN: 0-231-18128-0

"In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces "The Hurdy-Gurdy" (translated by Susan Larsen), "Fourteen Little Red Huts" (translated by Chandler), and "Grandmother's Little Hut" (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, "The Hurdy-Gurdy "and" Fourteen Little Red Huts "constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's ass ..."






An Armenian Sketchbook
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Yury Bit-Yunan
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-618-4, ISBN: 1-59017-618-9

"Few writers had to confront so many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun. After the “arrest”—as Grossman always put it—of ..."






Soul(1st Edition)
And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
by Robert Chandler, Andrey Platonov, Olga Meerson, John Berger, Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov, Elizabeth Chandler
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-254-4, ISBN: 1-59017-254-X

"A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov's vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of ..."






The Latin School Register, Vol. 32
June, 1913 (Classic Reprint)
by Robert Chandler Kelley
ISBN-13: 978-0-260-19241-7, ISBN: 0-260-19241-4



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