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Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829–37) – Dual Language
This volume, part of Alma’s series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems written by Pushkin from the time of his courtship to Natalia Goncharova until his untimely death in a duel, and includes some of the greatest lyrical poems of his maturity, such as ‘The Promise’,…
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Lyrics: Volume 3 (1824–29) – Dual Language
This volume, part of Alma’s series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote in his mid-to-late twenties, during his exile in Mikháylovskoye and his subsequent return to metropolitan life. The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exert…
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Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817–24) – Dual Language
This volume, part of Alma’s series of the complete works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems he wrote during his time in St Petersburg as a young intellectual and his subsequent stay in the Caucasus, the Crimea and Russia’s Balkan frontier-lands. It includes many significant poems of his early…
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Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies
A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin’s daring masterwork is presented here in its rarel…
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Utopia: New Annotated Edition
By Thomas More
A sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke of one of the most influential philosophical works of all time, which renders the original Latin into an English that is clear, readable and true to the spirit of Thomas More’s writing. In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his d…
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The Captain’s Daughter and A History of Pugachov
Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain’s Daughter was Pushkin’s only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service to a remote fortress, where he falls in love wi…
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Ruslan and Lyudmila
In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka’s famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila -…
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Praise of Folly
A central text of the Renaissance, Praise of Folly is an essential part of the Western canon. In addition to a sparkling modern translation of Praise of Folly, this volume also includes other works by Erasmus: Pope Julius Barred from Heaven, ‘Epigram against Pope Julius II’ and a selection of his Ad…
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Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin – presented here in a dual language edition and sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary – was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quint…
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Belkin’s Stories
First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variat…
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