{"title":"Russian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe giants of Russian letters — Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Turgenev.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-kreutzer-sonata-and-other-short-stories","title":"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories","description":"One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. \"The Kreutzer Sonata\" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in matters of sex. In \"The Death of Ivan Ilych\" (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted by death. \"How Much Land Does a Man Need?\" (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritual crisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456920678497,"sku":"9780486110622","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_eefe3a19-0f42-48b8-9a23-9e2bce12af8f.jpg?v=1778566128"},{"product_id":"poor-folk","title":"Poor Folk","description":"When Poor Folk was first published in 1846, Dostoyevsky — one of nineteenth-century Russia's most important authors — was just twenty-four years old. The novel brought him immediate critical and public acclaim. A poignant societal and physiological sketch, Dostoyevsky's masterpiece is written in the form of letters of correspondence between two characters, both trapped within the poverty and circumstance of St. Petersburg's slums. Makar is a writer struggling to survive; Varvara, a low-paid seamstress. The two are in love, but too poor to marry. They long for respect, but can't even muster enough for themselves. Written during the initial stirrings of the Russian realism movement, Poor Folk is a vivid portrait of society's \"everyman.\" A work that is both beautiful and tragic, it unravels an unforgettable tale of the human condition.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457022685281,"sku":"9780486110882","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_8c159d64-36ef-4802-9534-ae057b4e52d7.jpg?v=1778566238"},{"product_id":"the-duel-and-other-stories","title":"The Duel and Other Stories","description":"This captivating collection of short stories, selected from works written during Chekhov's prolific period, displays those qualities for which the Russian author and playwright is famous: a natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. The six masterfully executed tales, reprinted here in the authoritative Constance Garnett translation, include \"The Darling,\" a poignant piece supporting the claim that life has no meaning without love; \"The Kiss,\" a fanciful confection recounting an officer's brief encounter with an unknown woman; as well as \"Anna on the Neck,\" \"The Man in a Case,\" \"The Malefactor,\" and the title story. As noted by author John Barth, \"Chekhov is a superb anatomist of the human heart and an utter master of his literary means. The details of scene and behavior, the emotions registered — seldom bravura, typically muted and complex, often as surprising to the characters themselves as to the reader but always right — move, astonish, and delight us line after line, story after story.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457106931809,"sku":"9780486111094","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_71d55748-f4e9-42df-b352-52d4a2bc098d.jpg?v=1778566329"},{"product_id":"family-happiness-and-other-stories","title":"Family Happiness and Other Stories","description":"Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of the short story and the long story — the particularly Russian form known as povest'. Each of the tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, vivid narration, and startling truths that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. Two unusual, intriguing short stores — \"Three Deaths\" and \"The Three Hermits\" — appear here, along with four powerful long stories: \"Family Happiness,\" \"The Devil,\" \"Father Sergius,\" and \"Master and Man.\" \"Family Happiness,\" the first story in this compilation, features a Tolstoyan theme that recurs both here and elsewhere in the author's writings: \"The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.\" Written over a period of 40 years or more, these works display the author's evolving perspectives on love, marriage, art, politics, and patriotism. They offer an eclectic introduction to the great Russian writer's fiction as well as a feast for those already acquainted with the pleasures of reading Tolstoy.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457354330209,"sku":"9780486112305","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_04c0e0b8-893b-4c47-bd63-4cfaeb402f08.jpg?v=1778566650"},{"product_id":"the-cherry-orchard","title":"The Cherry Orchard","description":"The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky. The play also functions as a magnificent showcase for Chekhov's acute observations of his characters' foibles and for quizzical ruminations on the approaching dissolution of the world of the Russian aristocracy and life as it was lived on their great country estates. While the subject and the characters of the work are, in a sense, timeless, the dramatic technique of the play was a Chekhovian innovation. In this and other plays he developed the concept of \"indirect action,\" in which the dramatic action takes place off stage and the significance of the play revolves around the reactions of the characters to those unseen events. Reprinted from a standard edition, this inexpensive well-made volume invites any lover of theater or great literature to enter the world of Madame Ranevsky, Anya, Gayef, Lopakhin, Firs, and the other memorable characters whose hopes, fears, loves, and general humanity are so brilliantly depicted in this landmark of world drama.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457478422625,"sku":"9780486112749","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_65015c45-9f49-423b-99ad-a335de7197ed.jpg?v=1778566785"},{"product_id":"the-double","title":"The Double","description":"While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece. Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457494741089,"sku":"9780486112770","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_3b741e46-8896-4d08-85e9-80d62b4199fe.jpg?v=1778566808"},{"product_id":"diary-of-a-madman-and-other-stories","title":"Diary of a Madman and Other Stories","description":"Hailed by Nabokov as \"the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced,\" Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular with both writers and readers, who prize his originality, imaginative gifts, and sheer exuberance. This collection offers an excellent introduction to the author's works. Opening a door to his bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story portrays a petty official's mental disintegration as he struggles for the attention of the woman he loves. Set during the repressive rule of Nicholas I, it satirizes the bureaucratic excesses of the era. Additional tales include \"The Nevski Prospect,\" a portrayal of the feverish pace of St. Petersburg street life, and \"The Portrait,\" a gripping depiction of a soul's perdition.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457583378529,"sku":"9780486112916","price":1.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_eb615549-d73c-4d8f-9f86-77253b19b603.jpg?v=1778566910"},{"product_id":"dead-souls","title":"Dead Souls","description":"A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their \"dead souls,\" the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burden, and the stranger receives — what? Gogol's comic masterpiece offers the answer in a vast and satirical painting of the Russian panorama, as it traces the path and encounters of its mysterious protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, in pursuit of his dubious scheme. The plot of Dead Souls is reputed to have been inspired by an actual episode related to the author by his friend, the poet Pushkin. Although intended as a three-part novel, only the first part and a few fragments of a draft of the second part exist; Gogol completed and destroyed the second part, and died in the course of his ascetic preparations for writing the third. Some readers consider his novel a realistic portrait of nineteenth-century Russia; others regard it as a work of great symbolism, proclaiming the trickster Chichikov an accurate image of commercial travelers the world over, whose success rests less upon their actual wares than on their grasp of human nature and powers of persuasion. Among the greatest nineteenth-century Russian novels, Dead Souls continues to inspire twenty-first century authors and readers.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457857679457,"sku":"9780486114071","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_6eca7d7f-f3c3-42d3-8ac5-1a29377818cd.jpg?v=1778567202"},{"product_id":"the-gambler","title":"The Gambler","description":"A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, it concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers, and other characters. Although not as dark as some of Dostoyevsky's other works, The Gambler nevertheless offers a grim and psychologically probing picture of the fatal attractions of gambling. Among its strengths are its well-drawn characters — Aunt Antonida, although lightly sketched in, is especially delightful — and its faithful depiction of life among the gambling set in fashionable German watering holes. This edition reprints Constance Garnett's authoritative translation.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457873997921,"sku":"9780486114101","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_c7287ca2-f4e1-4f0b-aa74-bc4aee4319d5.jpg?v=1778567225"},{"product_id":"white-nights-and-other-stories","title":"White Nights and Other Stories","description":"From the author of Crime and Punishment comes this remarkable collection of short fiction. 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This collection of his short stories offers thought-provoking glimpses into the Russian author's moving portrayals of the conflict between flesh and spirit.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457896837217,"sku":"9780486114132","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_94d4d10f-856e-4fe2-9e39-8633bed1661f.jpg?v=1778567247"},{"product_id":"the-brothers-karamazov-1","title":"The Brothers Karamazov","description":"Completed only a few months before the author's death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ― the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue of collective guilt. As in many of Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry, are drawn into the crime's vortex: Dmitri, a young officer utterly unrestrained in love, hatred, jealousy, and generosity; Ivan, an intellectual capable of delivering impromptu disquisitions about good and evil, God, and the devil; and Alyosha, the youngest brother, preternaturally patient, kind, and loving. Part mystery, part profound philosophical and theological debate, The Brothers Karamazov represents the culmination of Dostoyevsky's life's work and ranks among the greatest novels of all time.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457971875937,"sku":"9780486114392","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_a3265bfe-32ba-44c2-85e9-94532bf792b7.jpg?v=1778567332"},{"product_id":"the-eternal-husband","title":"The Eternal Husband","description":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), the brilliant Russian novelist whose psychological delvings into the human soul profoundly influenced the twentieth-century novel, wrote a prolific amount of shorter works that are masterpieces in their own right. His novella The Eternal Husband is considered one of the author’s most powerful and perfect creations. This surreal tale of duality and interchanging rivalry explores the life of a rich, idle man suddenly forced to confront the husband of his dead mistress. With keen insight into the human condition, the story relates the shared hatred, love, and guilt of the two men. Ripe with the emotional themes central to Dostoyevsky's greatest novels, including morality, the bonds of sexual love, mental torture, and neurosis, The Eternal Husband reveals the full range of the author's captivating genius.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457981804641,"sku":"9780486114408","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_d6f2a9f2-c79e-4020-aa60-245de8ed7a75.jpg?v=1778567340"},{"product_id":"anna-karenina-3","title":"Anna Karenina","description":"A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warmhearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. 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This cultural clash unfolds in a compelling, emotional drama of seduction, betrayal, and redemption.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457988325473,"sku":"9780486114422","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_062f6ed2-009f-4d27-a838-a7a0610a9172.jpg?v=1778567348"},{"product_id":"fathers-and-sons-1","title":"Fathers and Sons","description":"Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, Fathers and Sons was the first of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels to achieve international renown. A stirring tale of generational conflict during a period of social revolution, it vividly depicts the friction between liberal and conservative thought and the rise of the radical new philosophy of nihilism. Set in Russia during the 1860s against the backdrop of the liberation of the serfs, the story concerns the clash of older aristocrats with the new democratic intelligentsia. The impressionable young student Arkady Kirsanoff arrives home in the company of his friend Bazarov, a cynical biologist. Arkady's father and uncle, already distressed by the upheaval of the peasants, grow increasingly irritated at Bazarov's outspoken nihilism and his ridicule of the conventions of state, church, and home. The young friends, bored by the rustic life of the Kirsanoff estate, venture off to the provincial capital in search of amusement. There they encounter both romance and alienation. This inexpensive edition of a literary landmark affords students and general readers the opportunity to savor a timeless masterpiece of world literature.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458004807777,"sku":"9780486114453","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_742efe13-a254-48e5-badb-1087d2d2ef17.jpg?v=1778567370"},{"product_id":"the-idiot-1","title":"The Idiot","description":"One of the towering figures of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. 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A superb, panoramic view of 19th-century Russian manners, morals, and philosophy, The Idiot remains a provocative example of psychological realism.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458011525217,"sku":"9780486114538","price":2.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_e4ec37e1-496f-425e-9a81-a3c731aae2d4.jpg?v=1778567416"},{"product_id":"resurrection-1","title":"Resurrection","description":"This poignant study of spiritual regeneration recounts the sins of a Russian nobleman, Prince Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, and his attempts in later life to redress his transgressions. Tolstoy conducts readers on a harrowing voyage through Russia's corrupt courts and foul prisons that culminates in a ruthless march to Siberia. A powerful depiction of the injustices of the legal system, the novel assails the vices of petty officialdom and the hypocrisy of organized religion. Today Resurrection is less widely known and honored than the author's earlier works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but the story was an immense success upon its serial publication in 1899. A panoramic view of Russian social life at the end of the nineteenth century, this darkly compelling tale offers a vivid portrait of the conflict between wealthy aristocrats and starving peasants that erupted into the 1917 revolution.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458096394337,"sku":"9780486114682","price":2.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_39ba9419-1f92-4d9f-bd76-24787e246239.jpg?v=1778567516"},{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-3","title":"Crime and Punishment","description":"The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel — which he described as Crime and Punishment. One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman — a pawnbroker whom he regards as \"stupid, ailing, greedy…good for nothing.\" Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings of guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses to the crime and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. Infused with forceful religious, social, and philosophical elements, the novel was an immediate success. This extraordinary, unforgettable work is reprinted here in the authoritative Constance Garnett translation. 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Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458220716129,"sku":"9780486114996","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_f4c74565-2be3-4aed-8ea4-b021a7858332.jpg?v=1778567669"},{"product_id":"the-overcoat-and-other-short-stories","title":"The Overcoat and Other Short Stories","description":"Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — \"to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary.\" Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago. This rich selection of four short stories by the great 19th-century Russian author of Dead Souls includes \"The Nose,\" a savage satire of incompetent bureaucrats and the snobbery and complacency of the Russian upper classes; \"Old-Fashioned Farmers,\" a sketch depicting an elderly couple who live a happy but simple life in rustic seclusion; \"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,\" and of Gogol's most famous comic stories; and \"The Overcoat,\" an exceptionally moving tale — considered a masterpiece of the form — about a poor and much-ridiculed St. Petersburg official. 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Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man. A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, \"I know no better book in all modern literature.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458338222177,"sku":"9780486115214","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_c59f590c-cd8f-4b27-8997-a42a92e02077.jpg?v=1778567807"},{"product_id":"five-great-short-stories","title":"Five Great Short Stories","description":"Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), a Russian physician, short-story writer, and playwright, wrote hundreds of stories that delved beneath the surface of Russian society, exposing the hidden motives of his characters and the ways in which prevailing social forces influenced their lives. This collection contains five of his most highly regarded stories, all from his maturity, and set in a variety of Tsarist Russian milieux. 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