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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 484 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of fiction, travel narratives, and epistolary tales includes "The Queen of Spades, " in which an elderly countess is rumored to possess a supernatural secret for winning at cards.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence--including her own.
Author
Language
English
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
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