Серия книг «Russian Classics» — 32 книги

Вниманию читателей предлагается роман великого русского писателя Льва Толстого "Анна Каренина" в переводе на английский язык. В первую книгу вошли части первая - четвертая романа.

Вниманию читателей предлагается роман великого русского писателя Льва Толстого "Анна Каренина" в переводе на английский язык. Во вторую книгу вошли части пятая - восьмая романа.

The Same Old Story (1847) tells the story of Alexander Aduyev who leaves the idyllic setting of his home in the country to seek his fortune and make a career in St. Petersburg under the guidance and protection of his uncle, a government official. Such is the beginning of this "ordinary story". Alexander Aduyev, a "romantic three times over" (to quote Vissarion Belinsky) gradually sheds his idyllic notions and develops into a heartless and calculating climber.

The Same Old Story (1847) tells the story of Alexander Aduyev who leaves the idyllic setting of his home in the country to seek his fortune and make a career in St. Petersburg…

Tolstoy was an eye-witness to the concluding stage of the Crimean War (1853-1856). This novella shares his thoughts about the true value of human life.

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-three Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting.

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-three Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for…

Once the Russian lawyer, Anatoly Koni, told Lev Tolstoy about an incident he had witnessed in the course of his professional duties: during a trial for theft, one of the members of the jury, a young aristocrat, recognised the accused to be a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His conscience shaken, he decided to marry her to atone for his guilt. Such was the true-life story which formed the stimulus for Resurrection, one of Tolstoy's major works. Tolstoy spent ten years (from 1889 to 1899) working on the novel, which contains the essence of his mature views on most of the fundamental questions of life. The story tells about Katyusha Maslova, her fall and regeneration, against the background of all of Russia, suffering and rebellious, at the end of the last century. Tolstoy portrays aristocrats and peasants, high society salons and gloomy prisons, the courthouse and the various stages of a convict's existence. "Tolstoy tells us almost as much about Russian life as all the rest of our literature put together" Maxim Gorky said.

Once the Russian lawyer, Anatoly Koni, told Lev Tolstoy about an incident he had witnessed in the course of his professional duties: during a trial for theft, one of the members…

В сборник вошли повести и рассказы замечательного русского писателя XIX века Федора Михайловича Достоевского.