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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Classics | 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
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Theo Cuffe (Translator); Luc Sante (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: RIVERRUN EDITION
The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde 'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.' The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published in the French as À Rebours) inc ...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
Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...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: Classics | 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
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