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Vlad Vorobev

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Vlad Vorobev's books

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Thornton Wilder: The ides of March (2003)

No cover — Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen, Caryl Emerson: Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works. Oxford World's Classics (2007, Oxford University Press)

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R. F. Kuang: Babel (EBook, 2022, HarperCollins UK)

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Simon Garfield: All the Knowledge in the World (2022, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale: In Memory of Memory (2021, New Directions Publishing Corporation)

Eric Weiner: The Socrates Express (Hardcover, 2020, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)

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Vlad Vorobev rated Three comrades: 3 stars

Three comrades by Erich Maria Remarque

Vlad Vorobev rated Collected essays: 4 stars

Collected essays by Aldous Huxley (Harper colophon books)

Vlad Vorobev rated Less Than One: 4 stars

Joseph Brodsky: Less Than One (1987, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky

Vlad Vorobev rated The God Killers: 4 stars

David Simpson: The God Killers (EBook, 2006, Houghton Mifflin Co.)

The God Killers by David Simpson

The God Killers is an extraordinarily thought provoking take on the religious/paranormal genre. It is an existentialist horror novel with …

Vlad Vorobev rated Until I find you: 3 stars

John Irving, John Irving (duplicate): Until I find you (Paperback, 2006, Ballantine Books)

Until I find you by John Irving, John Irving (duplicate)

Vlad Vorobev rated White walls: 4 stars

Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡, Tatyana Tolstaya: White walls (Paperback, 2007, New York Review Books)

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

Vlad Vorobev rated The sea, the sea: 4 stars

Iris Murdoch: The sea, the sea (2001, Penguin Books)

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

Vlad Vorobev rated War and peace: 5 stars

Leo Tolstoy: War and peace (2007, Alfred A. Knopf)

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 …

Vlad Vorobev rated The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy: 5 stars

Mervyn Peake: The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (Vintage Classics)

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

Vlad Vorobev rated Lectures on Russian Literature: 4 stars

Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Russian Literature (2002, Harvest/HBJ Book)

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 …

Vlad Vorobev rated Salvage: 4 stars

Tom Stoppard: Salvage (2003, Grove Press)

Salvage by Tom Stoppard (Coast of Utopia ;)

Vlad Vorobev rated Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set): 4 stars

Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set) by Anton Chekhov

Vlad Vorobev rated A Prisoner of Birth: 4 stars

Jeffrey Archer: A Prisoner of Birth (Hardcover, 2008, St. Martin's Press)

A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been …

Vlad Vorobev rated Middlesex: 4 stars

Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex (Paperback, 2002, Picador)

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 …

Vlad Vorobev rated Pompeii: 4 stars

Robert Harris: Pompeii (2005, Random House Trade Pbks.)

Pompeii by Robert Harris

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