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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
Nikolai Gogol was a well-known Russian dramatist and fiction writer famous for his surreal sensibilities and distinctive sense of humour. He was active during the mid nineteenth century and drew on the increasing bureaucracy of the vast Russian empire for his subject matter. His works are satirical, fun ...Show more
Adolphe (riverrun Editions) by Benjamin Constant
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Category: Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
'One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.'From Richard Sieburth's preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fat ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (Riverrun Editions) by Leo Tolstoy; Andrew O'Hagan (Contribution by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and YouthPublished in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy ...Show more
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - A New Selection of the Sharp, Sensitive and Much-Revered Stories by Guy de Maupassant; Elsie Martindale Hueffer (Translator); Ada Galsworthy (Translator); Robert Hampson (Contribution by); Helen Chambers (Contribution by); Joseph Conrad (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perception ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: riverrun editions | Reading Level: very good
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first ...Show more
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