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Sofia Petrovna
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. …
The Architects
Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite - and its author's undoing - this novel of political intrigue and personal betrayal …
Constance Ring
Initially refused by the author's scandalized publisher, Constance Ring is now considered a classic of Scandinavian and women's literature, a passionate condemnation of marriage …
Encounters with Lise and Other Stories
In 1994 Russian writer Victor Erofeyev proclaimed Leonid Dobychin ""one of the main heroes of twentieth-century Russian literature."" Obscure for many years, Dobychin is now …
The Exchange and Other Stories
Yuri Trifonov, now recognized as one of the most distinguished Russian writers of the twentieth century, took a turn toward the controversial - and a leap toward greatness - with …
Divine and Human and Other Stories
A collection of stories by Leo Tolstoy, in which he draws on the tragic past of Russia to comment on the issues and ideas of his day. The stories show the depth of - and …
The Bureaucrats
The Bureaucrats (Les Employes) stands out in Balzac's immense Human Comedy by concentrating precisely and penetratingly on a distinctive modern institution: France's state …