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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a …

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim …

Life and Fate by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman

Russian literature at its most magnificent and intense. This novel rolls like the steppe unforgivably barren and exhausting, on and …

Collected essays by Aldous Huxley (Harper colophon books)

Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has …

White walls by Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡, Tatyana Tolstaya (New York Review Books classics)

The sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy

"War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in …

Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov

The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails …

Salvage by Tom Stoppard (Coast of Utopia ;)

Journey for our time by Astolphe marquis de Custine

Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set) by Anton Chekhov

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeffrey Eugenides

A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the …

Pompeii by Robert Harris

When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius …