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1	Anna Karenina more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written. In writing "Anna Karenina" he moved away from the vast historical sweep of "War and Peace" to tell, with extraordinary ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	War & Peace more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, "War and Peace"? presented here in the first new English translation in forty years?is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzheni'tsyn The extraordinary "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph of will over relentless dehumanization, this is Alexander Sotzhenitsyn's first novel to win international ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Brothers Karamazov more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Marc Slonim see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.25! \| first editions
5	The charm school more books like this by Nelson DeMille Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren't chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American. When a young tourist goes to the aid of a stranger on a dark Russian road, he ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Darkness at noon more books like this by Arthur Koestler - Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from £1.51! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Vampire Armand more books like this by Anne Rice Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the "Vampire Chronicles" returns to the glittering story of Armand Lestat, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven at the eighteenth-century Theater des Vampires in Paris. Snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice, Armand's story sweeps through several ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	We the Living more books like this by Ayn Rand This is a philosophical book from the Russian-born novelist Ayn Rand, an author interested in the concept of "enlightened self-interest". It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. see all copies from £3.44! new only from £6.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author see all copies from £1.36! new only from £10.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Fathers & Sons more books like this by I. S. Turgenev This title includes an introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. "Fathers and Sons" is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Doctor Zhivago more books like this by Boris Pasternak Against the background of the Russian Revolution, four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, find love, only to lose it again in tragic circumstances. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Last of the Breed more books like this by Louis L'Amour In this thriller, a Native American Air Force pilot must rely on his wits and survival skills after escaping from a Russian prison as he begins a long, lonely trek across the Bering Strait to freedom in the U.S. see all copies from £1.97! new only from £5.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Nicholas & Alexandra. more books like this by Robert K. Massie Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. As an engrossing account of one of the century's most ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the ... see all copies from £8.28! new only from £10.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	Archangel more books like this by Robert Harris When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The first circle more books like this by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle of Dante's Hell -- where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity -- stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions of Stalin's Russia. Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £8.05! \| first editions
17 view cover	Dead Souls more books like this by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Peter the Great more books like this by Robert K Massie "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £6.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Robert F Kennedy, Jr. This volume presents Senator Robert F. Kennedy's perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, 13 days during which the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy was U.S. Attorney General at the time, which gave him a firsthand perspective on his brother's negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.85! \| first editions
20 view cover	A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East more books like this by David Fromkin Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £12.20! \| first editions
21 view cover	Notes from Underground more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky As well as the text of the novel, this edition includes a selection of Dostoevsky's letters, writings from his notebooks and an account of a formative visit to the west.There is also a collection of critical essays by both Western and Russian critics. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.75! \| first editions
22 view cover	The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad more books like this by Harrison E Salisbury }The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £15.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Cancer Ward more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.97! \| first editions
24 view cover	The brothers Karamazov more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV states and exemplifies Dostoevsky's most urgent concerns as a writer: the struggle between faith and the lack of it, the nature of love and hate, the question of God's existence, and generational conflict. The latter is represented in his novel by the father, Fyodor Karamazov, and his four very different sons: the saintly ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn A classic bestseller--this monumental work from a Nobel Prize-winning writer documents Soviet political repression. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £27.69! \| first editions

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