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A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to... More

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed "The Brothers Karamazov," the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the m... More

More InformationVintage ClassicsGeneral & literary fictionISBN: 0099448424 Publication date: 05092002512 pagesB formatEAN: 9780099448426... More

Introduction by Timothy Binyon Translated by Vladimir and Dmitri Nabokov "From the Hardcover edition.... More

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has becom... More

The Cossacks (Kazaki, 1863) is a novel by Count Leo Tolstoy. The central character, Olenin, tired of life in civilized society, attempts to find happiness in the wild, free-living Cossacks of the Caucasus. The portraits of the old Cossack, Eroshka and the native girl, Maryana are especially successf... More

WAR & PEACE probably the greatest novel ever written stands alone in its vast scope and minute detail, its immense diversity and final unity.Set in the years leading upto and culminating in Nepolean's disastorous Russian invasion, the novel focusses upon the entire society torn by conflict and chang... More

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emoti... More

Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases the great Russian writer's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature. An inexpensive, high-q... More

This is the best single work in any language about Dostoevsky's work as a whole. Joseph Frank has called it one of the indispensible studies by Russian critics. An established classic, it is here available for the first time in paperback in English translation.... More

Since the time of the Upanishads, the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis has been a powerful tool in the interpretation of Sanskrit texts. By drawing on the appropriate literature and deploying the model provided by the tradition itself, the author explains how it w... More

Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned ess... More

This book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great Russian writers - Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. Though not necessarily representative of the authors' complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility... More

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The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a novelist,... More

This book contains the reports given at the Eighth Bhakti conference organized in Leuven in August 2000. Forty scholars came to Leuven, hailing from fourteen different countires-from Japan to the west coast of the United States-each one bringing his or her experience. Hardbound,New Book... More

A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon -- it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece -- ... More