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David Magarshack
Sir Robert Boniface, the industrial and financial tycoon--and stalwart of the British Cabinet--has been found shot dead in his blue limousine on a warm Friday evening in the Vale of…
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This book, first published in 1972, discusses Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and biography of many of Russia’s greatest writers, closely examines Chekhov’s work for the…
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Ivan Turgenev,David Magarshack
Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist’s experience into a work of art. The best…
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F.M. Dostoevsky
A collection of articles, sketches, and letters spanning 33 years in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writing career, from 1847, just after the successful publication of his first novel, until 1880, a year…
First published in 1934, this novel is now extremely rare, and is long overdue its rediscovery.
Ivan Goncharov
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his…
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov’s plays - yet the difficulty in communication is one of its outstanding features.
F. M. Dostoevsky
Presents a collection of short stories by the Russian author, including White Nights, The Peasant Marey, and A Gentle Creature. .
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
This volume includes eight tales in new translations by David Magarshack: The Singers, Bezhin Meadow, Mumu, Assya, First Love, Knock…Knock…Knock…, Living Relics, Clara Milich.
Gogol?, Nikolaai Vasil?evich,David Magarshack
