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White Nights (Hardcover)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Translated by Ronald Meyer
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R240
R192
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Regarded as one of world literature's
foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some
of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on
the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the
hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a
subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of
marriage and tragedy.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the
whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from
Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 new books in the bestselling
Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin
Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics'
huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and
across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak,
tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't
soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately
intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully
depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide. Introducing
Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little
Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin
Classics, with books from around the world and across many
centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London
to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to
16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories
lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and
inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). Dostoyevsky's works available in
Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Double,
The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The
Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The
Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.
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The Mountain and the Wall (Paperback)
Alisa Ganieva; Translated by Carol Apollonio; Introduction by Ronald Meyer
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R377
R352
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"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic." -- Lauren Smart, Dallas
Observer "Never before has Russian literature produced such an
honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus."-- Kommersant
Weekend (Russia) **One of the Dallas Observer's "10 Books To Read
This Fall" ****World Literature Today Editor's Pick** This
remarkable debut novel by a unique young Russian voice portrays the
influence of political intolerance and religious violence in the
lives of people forced to choose between evils. The Mountain and
the Wall focuses on Shamil, a young local reporter in Makhachkala,
and his reactions, or lack thereof, to rumors that the Russian
government is building a wall to cut off the Muslim provinces of
the Caucasus from the rest of Russia. As unrest spreads and the
tension builds, Shamil's life is turned upside down, and he can no
longer afford to ignore the violence surrounding him. With a fine
sense for mounting catastrophe, Alisa Ganieva tells the story of
the decline of a society torn apart by its inherent extremes.
This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer
Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from
Frajlich's essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wislawa Szymborska, but
informs her approach as a comparativist more generally as she
considers the work of major Polish writers of the twentieth
century, including Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, and Bruno
Schulz. Frajlich's study of the Roman theme in Russian Symbolism
owes its origins to her stay in the Eternal City, the second stop
on her exile from Poland in 1969. The book concludes with essays in
autobiography that describe her parents' dramatic flight from
Poland at the outbreak of the war, her own exile from Poland in
1969, settling in New York City, and building her career as a
scholar and leading poet of her generation.
The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could
be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in
which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British
service placed on the table before him, the English spinning
machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices,
such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which
populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin's visual
environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to
consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and
writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared
in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and
politics of Derzhavin's poems written in the early nineteenth
century, Three Metaphors for Life makes us see this period as a
chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity-at
once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform,
insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet
enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations
and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of
one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed,
'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a
formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict
deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume
includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a
cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a
Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and
the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and
a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'.
Yury Trifonov, one of the preeminent Russian writers of the
twentieth century, took a turn toward the controversial-and a leap
toward greatness-with the publication of the two novellas included
in this collection. "The Exchange" and "The Long Goodbye," part of
the "Moscow trilogy" that established Trifonov's reputation, are
remarkable for their depiction of the complex dilemmas and
compromises of Russian life after the Second World War. These
works, along with the two short stories "Games at Dusk" and "A
Short Stay in the Torture Chamber," detail the moral and spiritual
decline in Russia that resulted from the growing distance between
the theoretical idealism of the Soviet state and the actual
materialism and careerism that increasingly marked Russian
society.
While immersing readers in the social milieus of his characters,
and in the specifics of their days, Trifonov finds and examines the
precise moment when a person takes a wrong turn in life, the moment
of moral betrayal. Whether the moment occurs in a woman's plot to
obtain better living quarters by taking in her dying mother-in-law
or in the corruption of love and talent by ambition in an affair
between an actress and a writer, Trifonov brings the clashes
between different generations, cultural backgrounds, ideals, and
realities to nuanced, disturbing, and memorable life.
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