Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchston
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg,
The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelst
A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.Magical Realist Fiction includes:The nose by Niko
A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century.Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist st
Animal farm / novel by George Orwell --From The rise and fall of the Soviet Union / history by Michael Kort --The Stalin epigram / poem by Osip Mandelstam --The rebellion of the magical rabbits / short story by Ariel Dorfman --Crow song / poem by Margaret
