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War and Peace (Deluxe Edition)
By Leo Tolstoy
A new translation and a fully annotated edition (2,000 notes) of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Stephen Pimenoff’s vigorous new translation remains faithful to the original and brings all of Tolstoy’s wit and stylistic panache to life, capturing the nuanced, turbulent atmosphere of early-nineteenth-c…
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War and Peace
By Leo Tolstoy
A new translation and a fully annotated edition (2,000 notes) of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Stephen Pimenoff’s vigorous new translation remains faithful to the original and brings all of Tolstoy’s wit and stylistic panache to life, capturing the nuanced, turbulent atmosphere of early-nineteenth-c…
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The Willow and Other Stories
A quintessential example of Chekhov’s artistry, ‘The Willow’ is here accompanied by thirty-two other short stories – some of them never or rarely translated into English – which are representative of the three main phases of the author’s career: the short, light-hearted pieces of the late 1880s, the…
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories
Presented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, ‘The Looking Glass’ is accompanied in this volume by thirty-four other short stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
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Small Fry and Other Stories
Mostly dealing with the lives of downtrodden “little” men and low-ranking civil servants as they navigate the corruption and malpractice of Russian officialdom, this volume – here presented in Stephen Pimenoff’s lively new translation – bristles with wit and humour, and is tinged by that understated…
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Tales from Russian Folklore
Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best from written and oral sources. The result, an eig…
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