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War and Peace: Inner Sanctum Edition

By: Tolstoy, Leo; Maude, Louise & Aylmer; Fadiman, Clifton; Schuster, M. Lincoln

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1942

Seller ID: 2195106

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. Publisher's insert laid in. Spine faded, hinges just starting. 1942 Hard Cover. lxi, 1370 pp. 8 1/2 x 6. 8vo. Color maps on endpapers, two tone illustration on title page. Includes publisher's note by M. Lincoln Schuster, foreword by Clifton Fadiman. 'Reader's Guide and Bookmark for the Inner Sanctum Edition of War and Peace' contains: A list of characters arranged in family groups; A chronological table of principal historical events, 1805 to 1812, the period covered by War and Peace; A map of the Campaign of 1805; A map showing the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia and a Plan of Mo...
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Tolstoy

By: Troyat, Henri

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Harmony Books: 1980

Seller ID: 2201647

ISBN: 0517540924

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed, quarter-inch tear to top edge of front wrapper, green stain along bottom page ridge. 1980 Trade Paperback. 792 pp. Translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux. Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, Literature is rubbish. From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself. CONTENTS: TH...
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Ausgewahlte Erzahlungen

By: Tschechow, Anton (Chekhov, Anton)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ottobrunn bei Munchen, Franklin Bibliothek: 1982

Seller ID: 2307078

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

German text. Spine faded. 1982 Hard Cover. 563, [1] pp. Red leather spine over red cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Kukryniksy. A selection of stories by the Russian author considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in literary history. Includes: Die Dame mit dem Hundchen; Ein Scherz; Das Haus mit dem Zwischenstock; Der Ubeltater; Der schwarze Monch; Chirurgie; Der Mensch im Futteral; Der Tod des Beamten; Ein Chamaleon; Krakenzimmer Nr. 6; Der Name mit Pferd; Lebesuberdruss; Wanka; Eine l...
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On the Eve

By: Turgenev, Ivan; Budberg, Moura (Translator)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Cresset Press: 1950

Seller ID: 2197643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First English translation. Includes original jacket. Pages toned, boards, jacket reverse and endpapers foxed. 1950 Hard Cover. 118 pp. First appearance in English of Turgenev's third book. Translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg. Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our...
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Image for The New Soviet Fiction: Pushkin's Photograph; Auto Accident in Paris; No Smiles; The Sleeper; Cat-Strangler Silver; Antileader; A Question Mark; The Art of Needles and Sins; Through the Fields; Wat Should I Tell the Cow?; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti...

The New Soviet Fiction: Pushkin's Photograph; Auto Accident in Paris; No Smiles; The Sleeper; Cat-Strangler Silver; Antileader; A Question Mark; The Art of Needles and Sins; Through the Fields; Wat Should I Tell the Cow?; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti...

By: Zalygin, Sergei; Bitov, Andrei; Elchin; I. Grekova; Katev, Valentin; Konetsky, Vladimir; Okudzhava, Bulat; Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila; Rasputin, Valentin; hin, Mikhail; Soloukhin, Vladimir; Tolstaya, Tatyana; Valton, Arvo; Yaroslavtsev, S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Abbeville Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2275213

ISBN: 0896598810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1989 Hard Cover. Published within the last few years and selected by Novy Mir editor Sergei Zalygin so as to reflect literary talent from various regions of the USSR, the stories range from straightforward depictions of ordinary people's lives to a sophisticated piece by Andrei Bitov about time travel to Pushkin's era. Irina Grekova exposes intrigues in academia, Bulat Okudzhava portrays a Stalinist country bumpkin, Valentin Rasputin writes lyrically about Lake Baikal, and other, lesser-known authors provide lingering insights into human minds and emotions.
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Category: Russian

War and Peace: Inner Sanctum Edition

Tolstoy

Ausgewahlte Erzahlungen

On the Eve

The New Soviet Fiction: Pushkin's Photograph; Auto Accident in Paris; No Smiles; The Sleeper; Cat-Strangler Silver; Antileader; A Question Mark; The Art of Needles and Sins; Through the Fields; Wat Should I Tell the Cow?; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti...

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