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Walk in the Light: And Twenty-Three Tales

12 reviews
Leo Tolstoy, Louise Shanks Maude, ...

Plough Publishing House, 1999

Master of short stories
This book belonged to my father and he used to tell me stories from it when I was small. All parents should try to read this to their children - I remember being both mesmerised and confused by the stories : mesmerised because of their simplicity and flow, and confused because they led to deeper questions on society,humanity and God. Even if you are agnostic, you can read it for its human and ...

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

10 reviews

Dover Publications, 1990

Great literature and challenging Russian practice
This book works on two levels: One, these short stories are by the Russian masters of the genre. In English translation, they are powerful, evocative, and moving, on their own. There is a reason why Pushkin, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky are still popular: Those guys didn't write any garbage. They set the bar for all writers as high as it could go. I would especially recommend "Sleepy" by Anton ...

Stories (The greatest masterpieces of Russian literature)

16 reviews
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Heron Books, 1969

Chekov was the master of the genre
There are no better short stories than those of Anton Chekov. He wrote characterizations that resonate across the years and across cultures. Chekov takes you deep into these people's lives and struggles so that the reader feels a very definite strong connection with these characters that populate pre-revolutionary Russia. Short on plot and yet each story is satisfying and memorable. Some , Ward 6 ...

Pimsleur Language Program: Russian

8 reviews
Paul Pimsleur

Simon & Schuster, 1995

It works!
It really works, I previously spoke almost no Russian aside from "yes" and "no." But wanted to learn more, so I checked out this set of tapes, and two others at the local library. Guess which one taught me better? No question, this one did. It really teaches you how to speak in an easy way, so with a little practice most people can pick it up. This is a great set of tapes.

Word by Word Picture Dictionary English/Russian Edition (2nd Edition)

10 reviews
Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss

Pearson ESL, 2008

Great Word by Word Picture Dictionary!
I teach an ESL class to immigrants and use this book constantly. My students like this book becuz of the pictures, conversation ideas at the bottom and translations in several languages. I've had to order books (in Spanish, Chinese, Korean) for my students who want their own copies. We love this book!

Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.

7 reviews
Brian Boyd

Princeton University Press, 1999

Nabokov's Sweet Madness
For Nabokov, nothing was ever as simple as it seemed. In fact, "simple" and "sincere" were two adjectives that he despised. While teaching at Wellesley College and later at Cornell, Nabokov would give a low mark to any student who used the words, "simple" and "sincere" in a paper. Nabokov was a writer who celebrated the complexities in life. He looked for unexpected meanings in even the most ...

The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

7 reviews
Alexander Pushkin

Everyman's Library, 1999

Thrilling Tales of Adventure and Romance!
This book contains the major prose works of Aleksandr Pushkin, which include "The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin", "Dubrovskii", "The Queen of Spades", "The Captain's Daughter", and "A History of Pugachev". Also included in the book are many unfinished stories and fragments, which provide some glimpse into what Pushkin was thinking in between the years that he wrote his masterpieces. ...

Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics

6 reviews
Nina L. Khrushcheva

Yale University Press, 2008

Shades of exile, reflections in time, echos in space
I am so grateful to Nikita's great-granddaughter Nina for providing me with an excuse to talk about my favorite writer. Of course I had read everything available from Nabokov's Russian period in German or English translations, and from the American period more than once in the original. He was one of the greatest prose writers (let us ignore his poetry and his stage writing) of the 20th century, ...

Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms

7 reviews
Random House

Random House Reference, 1995

Superb.
This is a one of a kind dictionary of Russian idioms. It is a true masterpiece. I haven't seen one better. A nice and clever feature is the way the index is arranged. It is possible to find a particular idiom by keywords. No true student or professor of the Russian language will be displeased with this book. It's well worth the price.

Final Harvest: Poems

7 reviews
Emily Dickinson

Back Bay Books, 1964

Strong Medicine
I was never actually a fan of poetry until I encountered Emily Dickinson's poems. It seems as if she has written a poem for everyone. I strongly recomend this book, as my English teacher did to me, not only because of my love for Emily Dickinson, but for the quality of the book. It is obvious that Thomas H. Johnson, the editor, put many long hours of hard work into gathering this collection. ...

Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)

6 reviews
Anton Chekhov

Modern Library, 1999

Bloodied but unbowed
Chekhov is a master, but I almost wish he'd never existed. His prose is so deceptively simple that it will make everyone reading him, be they caterers, kids, or Senate whips, think "I can do that!" Needless to say, they can't. This doesn't mean anyone will ever stop trying. Chekhov fans the flames of megalomania in what Sartre called the "Sunday writer", dilettantes like Mathieu in The ...

The Gospel in Dostoyevsky: Selections from His Works

5 reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fritz Eichenberg

Orbis Books, 2004

Homilies in Classic Literature
The Soviet Union burned Bibles and banned their importation. Yet, possibly out of national pride, they never censored the work of this great Russian novelist. Luther once said that if the entire Bible were lost, except the Book of Romans, that it alone would be enough for salvation. Dostoyevesky takes us a step further: in a land where one could be born, grow up, and die at normal life ...

19 Polyglossum Russian-English-Russian Professional Dictionaries on CD-ROM

5 reviews
Igor Fagradyants

Polyglossum, Inc.

19dictionaries on CD is fantasticalGood set dictionaries
2 years I use these the dictionary and practically I do not buy the paper dictionaries. Recently I find in Polyglossum zShop more new and updated dictionaries (40 or 50). Polyglossum-dictionary-shell update is free for dictionarie from the CD. Other dictionarie I have buy as registered user only for [$$$] Publishers priece. Delivery is trough Intenet - fast and comfortable . Very friendly ... ...

Russian Grammar in Illustrations

5 reviews
Pekhliva

Firebird Pubns, 1988

Helpful, and Entertaining
When I was in Russia, we scoured the city for copies of this book. It is great for learning basics of Russian grammar. The pictures are easy to understand. The section on prefixed verbs of motion and prepositions were especially helpful. Many of the examples would be helpful for a teacher and could be placed on overheads.

The Oxford Russian Minidictionary

5 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

I love this Dictionary!!
I have used many russian dictionaries in the past. I am hooked on this one. It has a substantial vocabulary listing - I can always find the word I am looking for. It is small so I can easily carry it everyday. And the cover is durable.

English-Russian Dictionary of American Criminal Law

5 reviews
Marina Braun, Galina Clothier

Greenwood Press, 1998

An indispensable, accurate tool for court interpreters.
As an active certified court interpreter, I have found this dictionary a great help. In contrast to anything I had seen before, it is up-to-date, relevant, and practical. The translations of court forms provided at the end of the dictionary are a wonderful aid, not only for an interpreter like me who happens to work in Multnomah County, but for any interpreter or interested party, since the ...

Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction

4 reviews
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Walter W. Arndt

Stanford Univ Pr, 1983

Pushkin defines Russian literature
Pushkin is to Russian speakers what Shakespeare is to English speakers. His influence on the prose and poetry of the language is second to no one and writing influences Russian literature to this day. Amazingly Pushkin only lived until the age of 38. Even now you can visit his gravesite (as I did) and still see teenage girls weeping and putting flowers on his grave. This edition of the complete ...

The Water of Life: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

5 reviews
Barbara Rogasky, Trina Schart Hyman

Holiday House (P), 1991

Do Not Hesitate: Buy this Book
Without hesitation I can assure you that "The Water of Life" is one of the most beautiful and intricate fairytales and picture books I have ever come across in my life. If you are a folk-lore scholar, a lover of beautiful illustrations, or a parent who believes that children are capable of absorbing the deeper side of fairytales rather than brainlessly watching the sugary-sweet rubbish that the ...

Poems of Akhmatova

5 reviews
Stanley Kunitz

Little Brown & Co (P), 1973

The perfect introductory volume.........
This is the volume that introduced me to the works of Anna Akhmatova. After having read this in one evening, I could not sleep - I was so moved by her poetry. The translation must have captured her heart and soul because it certainly captured mine - it inspired me to get up in the middle of the night and draw pictures to go with what I had read. I understood at once the love the Russian ...

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

6 reviews

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Major Step Forward for English Readers
This set is a major step forward to the presentation and understanding of Solzhenitsyn to English speaking readers. It is a process that will still take years, but I suspect this volume will be pivotal. In the early days, the writer's books were rushed into print with so-so or even poor translations because of their timelineness and importance. His exile to USA happened at the crest of his ...

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