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  | | The Accompanist by Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Marian Schwartz, Ms Marian Schwartz Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1534-3, ISBN: 0-8112-1534-2 "A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl's jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it was first published. A spellbinding, short novel set in post-revolutionary RussiaThe Accompanist portrays with extraordinary sensitivity the entangled relationships of three intriguing charact ..." |
 | | Envy(Reprint) (New York Review Books Classics) by Yuri Olesha, Ken Kalfus, Marian Schwartz, Iurii Karlovich Olesha, Natan Altman, Юрий Карлович Олеша, Nyrb Classics, I͡u͡riĭ Karlovich Olesha Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 2004 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-086-1, ISBN: 1-59017-086-5 "A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALOne of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of the food industry who intends to revolutionize modern life with mass-produced sausage. Nikolai is a lose ..." |
 | | A Hero of Our Time (Modern Library Classics) by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Gary Shteyngart, Marian Schwartz, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7076-0, ISBN: 0-8129-7076-4 "This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ************ Translated by J. H. Wisdom & Marr M ..." |
 | | Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 506 Pages, Published 2012 by Open Letter ISBN-13: 978-1-934824-36-8, ISBN: 1-934824-36-4 ""One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature."Publishers WeeklyDay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peterthe Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradiseand tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a history of an ancient Persian wa ..." |
 | | White on Black by Ruben Gallego, Marian Schwartz Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101227-5, ISBN: 0-15-101227-X "This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity. And yet, ..." |
 | | The Ladies from St. Petersburg by Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2000 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1436-0, ISBN: 0-8112-1436-2 "Born in 1901, Nina Berberova led a life that encompassed both pre-revolutionary and post-communist Russia, and the three novellas comprising The Ladies from St. Petersburg follow the arc of their author's experience. In the title story, Varvara Ivanovna and her daughter Margarita plan a vacation in the country. True, there have been some shootings in the streets of St. Petersburg, and the trains are packed with people fleeing the city, ..." |
 | | The Man Who Couldn't Die The Tale of an Authentic Human Being (Russian Library) by Olga Slavnikova, Marian Schwartz, Mark Lipovetsky, Mark Leiderman Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18595-0, ISBN: 0-231-18595-2 "In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. An instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life―and the means and meaning of their own lives―by creating a world ..." |
 | | Anna Karenina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Marian Schwartz, Gary Saul Morson, Leo Tolstoi Paperback, 792 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21682-0, ISBN: 0-300-21682-3 "Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy s great "Anna" signifies a literary event of the first magnitude Tolstoy produced many drafts of "Anna Karenina." Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions. In her magnificent ..." |
 | | Calligraphy Lesson The Collected Stories by Mikhail Shishkin, Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Mariya Bashkatova, Sylvia Maizell Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2015 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-941920-03-9, ISBN: 1-941920-03-9 ""A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize ..." |
 | | Playing a Part by Daria Wilke, Marian Schwartz Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2015 by Arthur A. Levine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-545-72607-8, ISBN: 0-545-72607-7 "The first young adult novel translated from Russian, a brave coming-out, coming-of-age story.In June 2013, the Russian government passed laws prohibiting "gay propaganda," threatening jail time and fines to offenders. That same month, in spite of these harsh laws, a Russian publisher released PLAYING A PART, a young adult novel with openly gay characters. It was a brave, bold act, and now this groundbreaking story has been translated fo ..." |
 | | White Guard by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Ms Marian Schwartz, Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko, Evgeny Dobrenko, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15145-9, ISBN: 0-300-15145-4 "The first complete and accurate English translation of Bulgakov’s classic novel, accompanied by a substantial historical introductionWhite Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother—their father had died years before—and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wa ..." |
 | | Twelve Who Don't Agree(1st Edition) The Battle for Freedom in Putin's Russia by Valery Panyushkin, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Europa Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-010-6, ISBN: 1-60945-010-8 "In Twelve Who Don’t Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the country’s social spectrum: a politician, a journalist, an army officer, an author, a bank manager, a laborer, a university student . . . Despite varied backgrounds, they all have one thing in common—participation in the historic March of the Dissidents. Held in 2007 to protest the eroding state of affairs in Russia, the March was held in fla ..." |
 | | Oblomov(10th Edition) by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov, Marian Schwartz, Ms Marian Schwartz Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16228-8, ISBN: 0-300-16228-6 "Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia s serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov s "Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination, Oblomov clearly predates the ideal of the industrious modern man, yet he is impossible not ..." |
 | | Voices of Revolution, 1917(Updated) by Mark D. Steinberg, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 2003 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10169-0, ISBN: 0-300-10169-4 "Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the Russian people―workers, peasants, soldiers―as expressed in their own words during the vast political, social, and economic upheavals of 1917. The documents in the volume include letters from indiv ..." |
 | | White Guard(1st Edition) by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Evgeny Dobrenko, Ms Marian Schwartz, Marian Schwartz, Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12242-8, ISBN: 0-300-12242-X "White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mothertheir father had died years beforeand find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family’s personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates ..." |
 | | March 1917 The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 (The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz Hardcover, 728 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10685-0, ISBN: 0-268-10685-1 "The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or "nodes.” This is the first time that the monumental March 1917―the third node―has been translated into English. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which the Imperial government melts in the face of the mob, and the giants of th ..." |
 | | The Man Who Couldn't Die The Tale of an Authentic Human Being (Russian Library) by Olga Slavnikova, Marian Schwartz, Mark Lipovetsky Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18594-3, ISBN: 0-231-18594-4 "In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life―and the means and meaning of their own lives―by creating a world that doesn’t change, a Soviet Union that never cru ..." |
 | | The Last Tsar(1st Edition) The Life and Death of Nicholas II. by Edvard Radzinskii, Marian Schwartz, Эдвард Радзинский Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1992 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-340-56995-5, ISBN: 0-340-56995-6 "Edvard Radzinki, the leading Russian playwright, offers a portrait of Nicholas and Alexandra's marriage and an account of the final days of the Russian royal family's arrest, imprisonment and regicide. The opening of long-closed archives has allowed the author to make discoveries and reach new and revealing conclusions. His hitherto uptapped sources include three participants in the shooting, Radzinki reveals Lenin's role in the executi ..." |
 | | Rachel by Andrei Gelasimov, Marian Schwartz, Inc. Brilliance Audio Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Amazon Crossing ISBN-13: 978-1-61109-075-8, ISBN: 1-61109-075-X "With icons like Chubby Checker and Yuri Gagarin, the Moscow that Svyatoslav Semyonovich inhabits at the onset of the Cold War brims with the flashy visual textures of capitalism. A Jewish teenager on the hunt for black-market tight pants and rock records, Svyatoslav somehow fails to develop his undying love for Lyuba into a happy ending. He finds work in a mental institution, runs off to Kiev with one of the patients, marries a few time ..." |
 | | Gods of the Steppe(Reprint) by Andrei Gelasimov, Marian Schwartz Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Amazoncrossing ISBN-13: 978-1-61109-073-4, ISBN: 1-61109-073-3 "It is the summer of 1945. Germany has been defeated, Hitler has disappeared, and tensions are mounting ever higher along the Russian-Chinese border…where the threat of Japanese invasion haunts.For Petka, no life could be more thrilling and glorious than marching into battle alongside the Red Army. But he is only twelve, the bastard child of a fractured family, trapped in a village too tiny for his bursting spirit. So he must make his ow ..." |
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