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Stories (00 Edition) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Publisher Comments Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments From one of Europes most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents lifes improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka and Breon Mitchell Publisher Comments Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes From Underground (04 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher Comments A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi by Anna Akhmatova Publisher Comments Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert Publisher Comments Blessed is the nation that in the course of a century could give the world two poets of Czeslaw Milosz's and Zbigniew Herbert's scope. Doubly blessed is the English-reader, for in this volume he gets Zbigniew Herbert's work rendered by Czeslaw Milosz... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin by Aleksandr S Pushkin Publisher Comments Considered in his day Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was famous not only for works that inspired ballets and operas, such as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov, but for his stories--"The Queen of Spades" and many others--all of which are collected here in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis Publisher Comments Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz Publisher Comments The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Give Me: Songs for Lovers by Irina Denezhkina Publisher Comments Shortlisted for Russia's national bestseller prize and translated into twelve languages, Give Me marks the debut of a literary wunderkind, a gifted writer with a fine-tuned ear and unforgettable voice. The stories in Give Me are bracingly authentic and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Liquidation by Imre Kertesz Publisher Comments A masterly new novel from the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature: the story of a Hungarian writer whose death forces his circle of friends to confront their own terrible moment in history. Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B. —... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Voices From Chernobyl (05 Edition) by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Although this was one of the most devastating tragedies ever, until now, no book has appeared in English giving the inside story of what happened to the people living in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Europena : Brief History of the Twentieth Century (05 Edition) by Patrik Ourednik Publisher Comments Told in an informal, mesmerizing voice, Ouredník represents the twentieth century in all its contradictions and grand illusions, demonstrating that nothing substantial has changed between 1900 and 1999--humanity is still hopeful for the future and still... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Publisher Comments Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment (91 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chinese Letter (Eastern European Literature) by Svetislav Basara Publisher Comments Ordered by two mysterious men to "write a statement of about 100 pages," the narrator of Chinese Letter — who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz — faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper
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Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia by Dubravka Ugresic Publisher Comments In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses--literally to everyone--that if Thomas Mann... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chekov : Four Major Plays (05 Edition) by Anton Chekhov Publisher Comments In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays--Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard--the brilliant theatrical translator Curt Columbus recaptures the master's open-ended simplicity. Curt Columbus loves... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy Publisher Comments This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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