Books like 'A Concise History of Russia'
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Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from 1912 to 1944. For more than half a century the book has been loved by children and adults alike. The novel has undergone more than 100 printings, including translations into other languages. Based on its story, plays have been staged and an opera has been written... -
![The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna by C.W. Gortner]()
The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna by C.W. Gortner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNarrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia's most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs as she fought to save her dynasty in its final years... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![The Highlander’s Weakness: A Medieval Historical Romance Novel by Lydia Kendall]()
The Highlander’s Weakness: A Medieval Historical Romance Novel by Lydia Kendall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
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![The Women of Arlington Hall by Jane Healey]()
The Women of Arlington Hall by Jane Healey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA female codebreaker puts her future and her heart on the line in a stirring novel about love, loyalty, betrayal, and Cold War spy games by the bestselling author of The Secret Stealers.1947: Adventurous Radcliffe graduate Catherine “Cat” Killeen cancels her wedding and upends a future that no longer suits her... -
![The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch]()
The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... .. -
![Highlander’s Phantom Lass: A Steamy Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Ann Marie Scott]()
Highlander’s Phantom Lass: A Steamy Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Ann Marie Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
![From Cafes to Cossacks by Callie Berkham]()
From Cafes to Cossacks by Callie Berkham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMax tells her cousin she wants to go back to the time of Peter the Great, but instead, she ends up in the middle of the Russian revolution and is captured by Cossacks fighting for the Whites against the Bolsheviks. The Dane in charge thinks he outsmarted her, but Max only let him capture her... -
![Highlander’s Warrior Heart : A Steamy Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Ann Marie Scott]()
Highlander’s Warrior Heart : A Steamy Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Ann Marie Scott
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![A Waltz with Traitors by A.L. Sowards]()
A Waltz with Traitors by A.L. Sowards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the road to freedom is a six-thousand-mile-long railroad track. Sometimes the road to love is even longer.The Former Russian Empire, 1918Czech soldier Filip Sedlák never wanted to fight for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. So at the first opportunity, he defected to the Russians. Now he and others like him have formed the Czechoslovak Legion... -
![Generations of Winter by Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Аксёнов]()
Generations of Winter by Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Аксёнов
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCompared by critics across the country to War and Peace for its memorable characters and sweep, and to Dr. Zhivago for its portrayal of Stalin's Russia, Generations of Winter is the romantic saga of the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945...Categorized as:
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![The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney]()
The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing... -
![The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov]()
The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA rich successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance... -
![Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol]()
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular with both writers and readers, who prize his originality, imaginative gifts, and sheer exuberance.This collection offers an excellent introduction to the author's works... -
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![Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley]()
Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProse translations of most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and other manuscripts in a style accessible to a modern audience and yet close to Old English... -
![Marina by Susan K. Downs, Susan May Warren]()
Marina by Susan K. Downs, Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhere is the God who promised to protect the heirs of Anton? Marina Shubina believes God has abandoned her. She's widowed and pregnant-and Hitler's Third Reich has just invaded Russia. As a partisan, she's ready to give her life for the Motherland, but what will become of her unborn child? OSS agent Edward Neumann has one chance to redeem his mistakes in Berlin. . -
![Sofia Petrovna by Aline Werth, Lydia Chukovskaya]()
Sofia Petrovna by Aline Werth, Lydia Chukovskaya
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for any good news... -
![The Ice Swan by J'nell Ciesielski]()
The Ice Swan by J'nell Ciesielski
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAmid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in Paris with her mother and sister... -
![Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn]()
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTurgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting... -
![Mírgorod by Nikolai Gogol]()
Mírgorod by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLas cuatro narraciones que forman Mírgorod (1835) reflejan, como en un mosaico trabajado por distintas generaciones, la admirable diversidad del genio de Gógol.«Terratenientes de antaño» es una pieza de primoroso detallismo, con una mirada nostálgica sobre los últimos años en una hacienda rural de un viejo y bondadoso matrimonio, ocupado solo de comer y beber... -
![Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol]()
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsDead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic... -
![Las almas muertas by Nikolai Gogol, Marta Rebón]()
Las almas muertas by Nikolai Gogol, Marta Rebón
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on paper... -
![We the Living by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff]()
We the Living by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAyn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness... -
![Rekreacje by Yuri Andrukhovych]()
Rekreacje by Yuri Andrukhovych
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRecreations is a novel of carnivalesque vitality and acute social criticism. It celebrates newly found freedom and reflects upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society. Four poets and an entourage of secondary characters converge on fictional Chortopil for the Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit, an orgy of popular culture, civic dysfunction, national pride, and sex... -
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![The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss... -
![Historia de una maestra by Josefina Aldecoa]()
Historia de una maestra by Josefina Aldecoa
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUna narración hecha desde el recuerdo, llena de verdad y de sentimientos auténticos.En 1923 Gabriela recoge su título de maestra. Es el comienzo de un sueño que la llevará a trabajar en varias escuelas rurales en España y en Guinea Ecuatorial. Historia de una maestra es la narración, hecha desde la memoria, de la vida de Gabriela durante los años veinte y hasta el comienzo de la guerra civil...Categorized as:
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![Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev]()
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLarge Format for easy reading. The last novel of any length from one who may be considered one of the great Victorian novelists... -
![The Bridegroom by Ha Jin]()
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful... -
![Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov]()
Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita.When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos... -
![Envy by Yury Olesha]()
Envy by Yury Olesha
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOne of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of the food industry who intends to revolutionize modern life with mass-produced sausage... -
![The Curse of the Romanovs by Staton Rabin]()
The Curse of the Romanovs by Staton Rabin
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger. It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family... -
![The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Joan Holden]()
The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Joan Holden
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWriting a few years before the French Revolution, barely concealing himself in his hero, Beaumarchais pours his class rage into a stock-comic vessel that barely contains it under pressure. Three years after the happy ending of, it s the valet s turn to marry. But his master the Count has tired of his lovely Countess, and lusts for Figaro s bride-to-be, Suzanne... -
![Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander]()
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure. Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs... -
![House of Meetings by Martin Amis]()
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as "The Washington Post" has attested: "There is, quite simply, no one else like him." "House of Meetings" is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow... -
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![A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells]()
A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet against a vividly depicted background of fin de siécle New York, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary-a conflict in which a man of goodwill futilely attempts to act as a mediator, only to be forced himself into a crisis of conscience...Categorized as:
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![Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]()
Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery... -
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