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  • Reading Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich in Russian
    Mark R Pettus
    Written in simple and sometimes shockingly blunt prose, Tolstoy’s timeless novella is a masterpiece of his later work, combining relentless psychological observation with moral and spiritual urgency in its depiction of the death of an ordinary man, a certain Ivan Ilyich - a court official, husband, and father. Ivan Ilych is perfectly ordinary in the sense that his lifelong purs...
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    20,28 €

  • Cursing in Russian with Lenin
    Mark R Pettus
    Russian 'mat' - a remarkably expressive, linguistically fascinating, and utterly hilarious system of obscenity that builds a wide variety of words from a handful of extremely vulgar roots - is never taught in the classroom, but is absolutely essential for anyone looking to master Russian in all of its fullness. Russians widely consider 'mat' to be much more obscene than anythin...
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    20,57 €

  • Reading Chekhov’s Plays in Russian
    Mark Pettus
    In a format designed to help students of Russian begin enjoying real Russian literature in the original, this volume includes two of Anton Chekhov’s timeless masterpieces of the Russian stage: 'Uncle Vanya' (the tale of an epic existential meltdown on a country estate) and 'The Cherry Orchard' (a saga of family trauma and dysfunction, set against a near-apocalyptic backdrop of ...
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    19,93 €

  • Reading Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground in Russian
    Mark Pettus
    A foundational text of Existentialism that has influenced writers from Franz Kafka to Ralph Ellison to Imre Kertész, Dostoevsky’s snow-covered Notes from the Underground - presented here in its entirety, in both the original Russian and a new, facing English translation - is bitingly sarcastic, intellectually provocative, and emotionally wrenching. Composed by an anonymous 'Und...
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    19,64 €

  • Reading Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time / The Demon in Russian
    Mark R Pettus
    Presented here together, in their entirety - in the original Russian and in a facing English translation, new for this edition - are two masterpieces of Russian literature by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), both set in the Caucasus: The Demon, a narrative poem, and A Hero of Our Time, a novel. The Demon was deemed so scandalous at the time it was written that it was first publis...
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    14,87 €

  • Russian, Book 3
    Mark R Pettus
    This is the revised edition of Book 3 in a series of Russian language textbooks that began with Russian Through Propaganda (Books 1 and 2). This volume shifts its attention from the Soviet era to the Imperial era, illustrating its discussions of intermediate grammar with paintings depicting Russian history and culture. Classical poems by the likes of Pushkin and Lermontov provi...
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    34,29 €

  • Reading Gogol’s Petersburg Tales in Russian
    Mark R Pettus
    A pure delight to read, the four major 'Petersburg Tales' of Nikolai Gogol - strange and fantastical, ludicrously absurd, by turns harrowing and hilarious - are among the foundational texts of modern Russian literature. In this volume designed specifically for Russian learners, 'The Overcoat,' 'The Nose,' 'Diary of a Madman,' and 'Nevsky Prospekt' are presented in their entiret...
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    15,36 €

  • Russian Through Propaganda, Book 2
    Mark R Pettus
    This second volume in the Russian Through Propaganda series provides a second semester’s worth of intensive college-level Russian language learning. It presents all plural forms of noun and adjective case endings, introduces basic verbs of conveyance and basic prefixed forms, deals extensively with numbers and time expressions, and introduces comparative forms. It concludes wit...
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    34,25 €

  • Reading Crime and Punishment in Russian
    Mark R Pettus
    Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is one of the most gripping novels in the Russian canon. Often described as a murder mystery in search of a motive, it follows a former student in St. Petersburg, Rodion Raskolnikov, as he commits a grisly murder - a murder he justifies by both a peculiar sort of 'arithmetic' and by a theory about the right of 'extraordinary' people to wade thr...
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    15,58 €

  • Reading Chekhov’s Stories in Russian
    Mark R Pettus
    Nine of Chekhov’s most powerful and thought-provoking short stories are included here, in the original Russian and in a facing English translation, together with all the vocabulary notes and reference tables you need to make sense of Chekhov’s original texts. Designed to help students of Russian begin to enjoy real Russian literature in the original without constantly reaching ...
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    19,80 €