Stocked partly with material from archives that opened after the fall of the Soviet Union, documents the life of Russian novelist Dostoevsky (1821-81), a major literary figure throughout the world. The texts are presented in chronological sections from his childhood through the …
Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years.
Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years.
Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years.
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writters in Russian literature.
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writters in Russian literature.
"Mikhail Sholokhov is one of the most contested recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the history of the award. As a young man Sholokhov's epic Quiet Flows the Don--originally Quiet Don--became an unprecedented overnight success. Yet he struggled to complete a second no…
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev'…
Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within th…
"Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within t…