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Paperback. .
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910213513
ISBN
9781910213513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's "Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel. Translator(s): Schwartz, Marian. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300162288
ISBN
9780300162288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 279.
Publisher
Granta UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Reprint, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862071032
ISBN
9781862071032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Hardcover. Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period. Translator(s): Morris, Ivan. Num Pages: 1344 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
1344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151695
ISBN
9781857151695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. Translator(s): Hogarth, C. J. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262869
ISBN
9781853262869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.28

Paperback. Editor(s): Srsen, Ivan. Series: Akashic Noir. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Akashic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617753084
ISBN
9781617753084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.91

paperback. When Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair. Translator(s): Berlin, Isaiah. Num Pages: 112 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443356
ISBN
9780140443356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.66

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition of Fathers and Children is presented in a new translation with a wealth of material. Translator(s): Pursglove, Michael. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494894
ISBN
9781847494894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.29

Hardcover. This work contains "First Love" and "A Fire At Sea", translated by Isiah Berlin, and "Spring Torrents" translated by Leonard Schapiro. These stories record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation. Translator(s): Berlin, Isaiah; Schapiro, Leonard. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151916
ISBN
9781857151916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.19

Paperback. First translation for over a century of Turgenev's last and most ambitious novel, now presented in an edition which contains pictures and an extensive section on Turgenev's life and works. Translator(s): Pursglove, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493750
ISBN
9781847493750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father and uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate - his outspoken nihilist views and his scathing criticisms of the older men expose the growing distance between Arkady and his father. Translator(s): Carson, Peter. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441337
ISBN
9780141441337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli and falls in love. He decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, Madame Polozov, his vulnerability makes him prey for a destructive infatuation. Translator(s): Shapiro, Leonard. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443691
ISBN
9780140443691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.05

Hardcover. These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Translator(s): Hepburn, Charles; Hepburn, Natasha. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 210 x 31. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
398
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150544
ISBN
9781857150544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.08

Paperback.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322455
ISBN
9780940322455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.45

Paperback. Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536047
ISBN
9780199536047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical expose of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel with Dostoevsky. A melancholy evocation of impossible romance, Smoke represents the apogee of Turgenev's later fiction. Translator(s): Pursglove, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Only edition in print
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493163
ISBN
9781847493163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Translator(s): Freeborn, Richard. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540402
ISBN
9780199540402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.45

Paperback. This lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature and the author of Fathers and Children, now available to English readers in Hugh Aplin's lucid translation, is presented here with 'Yakov Pasynkov', another story exploring the nature of love and human relations. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146. 160 pages, illustrations. This lesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature and the author of Fathers and Children, now available to English readers in Hugh Aplin's lucid translation, is presented here with 'Yakov Pasynkov', another story exploring the nature of love and human relations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 11. Weight: 146. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh.
Publisher
Oneworld Classics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492180
ISBN
9781847492180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Rudin, Turgenev's first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author's later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia. Translator(s): O'Brien, Dora. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492265
ISBN
9781847492265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Michael R. Katz's acclaimed translation of Turgenev's greatest novel is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Katz, Michael R. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393927979
ISBN
9780393927979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.35

hardcover. Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov. Translator(s): Pyman, A. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150179
ISBN
9781857150179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. This title chronicles the lives of Catholics, Moselms and Orthodox Christians that unable to reconcile their disparate loyalties. Translator(s): Edwards, Lovette F. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Harvill Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860460586
ISBN
9781860460586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Editor(s): Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992843663
ISBN
9780992843663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.05

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906694838
ISBN
9781906694838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

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