"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, RobertChandler 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 ..."
" 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Alexander Pushkin is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest poet, and through his poems as well as his experimentation with other genresdramas, short stories, prose novelshe 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 "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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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. ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."