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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Translator(s): Garry, Stephen. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241284407
ISBN
9780241284407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496201
ISBN
9781847496201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.93

hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Number of pages
446
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150667
ISBN
9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.84

Paperback. A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847495686
ISBN
9781847495686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529941
ISBN
9780099529941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099490661
ISBN
9780099490661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Contains five satirical stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529552
ISBN
9780099529552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Featuring explorations of the absurd and bizarre, this title, here presented in a new translation, provides a glimpse into the artistic development of the author of "Master and Margarita". Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494726
ISBN
9781847494726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455144
ISBN
9780140455144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493538
ISBN
9781847493538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. A satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New, Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099479321
ISBN
9780099479321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455465
ISBN
9780140455465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493712
ISBN
9781847493712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204. 160 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight: 202. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492869
ISBN
9781847492869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.89

Paperback. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them - such as 'The Cockroach' and 'A Dissolute Man' - published for the first time in the English language. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Oneworld Classics Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493873
ISBN
9781847493873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455151
ISBN
9780140455151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529569
ISBN
9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.86

Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099540946
ISBN
9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

Paperback. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, the author recreates the experience of battles, and also the long pauses that come before and after. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151459
ISBN
9780300151459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843914020
ISBN
9781843914020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.28

Paperback. For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. This translation presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia. Translator(s): Gasperetti, David. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875806747
ISBN
9780875806747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.77

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya Translator(s): Cornwell, Neil; Parker, Martin. Series: Evergreens. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847495761
ISBN
9781847495761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to the Caucasus and becomes involved in a series of adventures. A dazzlingly original work of fiction, the novel is newly translated together with Pushkin's travel narrative, A Journey to Arzrum, with introduction and notes. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199652686
ISBN
9780199652686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Hardcover. The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 205 x 54. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593548
ISBN
9781841593548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.88

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