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Series
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized recreation of the author's experiences as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature describes the school's descent into a dangerously Socialist Realist aesthetic that almost caused him to abandon writing altogether.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the New Economic Policy (NEP), The Golden Calf chronicles the adventures of con man Ostap Bender (a.k.a. the "Grand Strategist") and his merry band of mischief makers on a hilarious jaunt across the "wild west" of the early Soviet Union. Their mark is Alexander Koreiko, another shady figure who exploited the corruption and chaos of the NEP to become an "underground millionaire." Once Bender hears of Koreiko, the chase is on. It is time...
8) Ghost song
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north.Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means 'Immortal.'Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son.Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Malyuta nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A riveting, fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.
16) Dust and ashes
Author
Series
Arbat trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 473 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 579 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
19) The charm school
Author
Language
English
Description
On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks upa most unusual passenger with an incredible secret. Poised against the very heartland of America is a vast KGB enterprise known as "The Charm School."
20) The Golden Calf
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (353 pages)
Language
English
Description
First new translation in 50 years of one of Russia's most beloved--and comic--works of literature.
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