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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 £4.50! \| 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 £4.69! \| 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 £4.50! \| 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 £4.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Child 44 more books like this by Tom Rob Smith In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists. Grand Central Publishing see all copies from £9.29! new only from £10.46! \| 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	Crime and Punishment more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment," by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics": New ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Master & Margarita more books like this by Mikhail Bulgakov I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £8.02! \| first editions
10	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 £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	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 £10.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 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 £3.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	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 £2.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	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 £1.36! new only from £7.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 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
16 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
17 view cover	Idiot more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky " My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar more books like this by Simon Sebag Montefiore This intimate biography of Joseph Stalin is also a group portrait of Stalin and those around him during his 30-year rule of the Soviet Union--including Beria, Molotov, Stalin's wife, Nadya, and others in his court. It is thick with details of everyday life, and it is this detail that demythologizes the Soviet dictator, and which reveals his ... see all copies from £7.55! new only from £11.95! \| first editions
19 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 £8.18! new only from £10.58! \| first editions
20 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
21 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
22 view cover	Crime and punishment more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.26! \| first editions
23 view cover	Stalingrad more books like this by Antony Beevor This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.90! \| first editions
24 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
25 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 £5.46! new only from £6.89! \| signed copies \| first editions

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