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Fiction in translation

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
€ 30.71

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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 young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Translator(s): O Ceallaigh, Philip. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241189610
ISBN
9780241189610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Lipson, Lesley. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555000
ISBN
9780199555000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover. A mixture of reality and illusion, this is the story of the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, who set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat. The narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy. Translator(s): Motteux, P.A. Num Pages: 1048 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1008.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150032
ISBN
9781857150032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.88

Paperback. This title chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read this title. Translator(s): Grossmann, Edith. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 50. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
992
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469698
ISBN
9780099469698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. Editor(s): Rutherford, John. Translator(s): Rutherford, John. Num Pages: 1056 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 44. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
1056
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449099
ISBN
9780140449099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

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