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Night Talk and Other Poems
"e;The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem,"e; writes Richard Pevear, "e;is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement. Once I hear it, I can …
CHERRY ORCHARD
"e;Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."e;The New YorkerThere have always been two versions of Chekhovs heartrending and …
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol: Introduction by Richard Pevear
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales--stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller--allowing …
The Double and The Gambler
The first real expression of Dostoevsky's genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a …
The Inspector
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." --James Wood, "New Yorker" Called "the greatest play written in Russian" by Vladimir …
Hadji Murat
Tolstoy's final work--a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers--is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical …
Three Sisters
After their father's death, Olga, Masha, and Irina find life in their small Russian town stifling and hopeless. They long to return to Moscow, the bustling metropolis they left …