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Teffi
Teffi's literary genius made her a star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. An extremely funny writer with a scathing critical eye, she was…
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A vividly idiosyncratic personal account of the disintegration of Tsarist Russia after the Revolution, as alive to the farcical and the ridiculous as it is to the tragic; a bit…
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Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia…
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Masterful stories of faith and superstition from a much lovedRussian author, in English for the first time.
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WINNER OF THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE AND THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BEST BOOK IN TRANSLATION IN 2017
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is…
Edythe Haber
The first biography of one of Russia’s most celebrated authors
The stories in this volume are selected from Teffi’s entire body of work, 1910-1952 –Title page verso.
Edythe Haber relies on letters, archival materials, and memoirs by contemporaries to create Teffi's biography, as well as to reveal the inner mechanisms of Russian literary life, both in the…
Carrie Kreth
What would you do to be yourself again?
A shortage of spoons leaves Mrs. Nimfy no option but to place her oddest utensil on the dinner table for Teffy’s honorary…
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Teffy was just tending to the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Nimfy when elderly Mrs. Nimfy called her into the Tree-Home. Someone has died; that someone was a father, and…
Donald B Anderson
Black & White EditionThis is a fascinating exploration of the genesis of a new breed born of necessity from the ashes of the Second World War. Donald B. Anderson looks…
