Soviet Fiction

After being out of the life of espionage of the Cold War, Dean is thrown back into the world that he got out of after 30 years to only discover that the lines of betrayal and loyalty get crossed. His only goal is to set the unfinished business to business that is finished by any mean necessary, even if it means he has to use his specialty craft of being the chemist. As he travels across continents to set things straight, he discovers a whole new meaning to family.

Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background.

"Un héros de notre temps" est le premier roman véritablement psychologique de la littérature russe. Sombre, romantique et désabusé, étrange et décousu, c'est un aperçu incisif de la sensibilité russe qui précède les grandes œuvres de Tourgueniev ou Dostoïevski. Un héros de notre temps est constitué de cinq récits, qui ont pour principal protagoniste Petchorine, un jeune homme désabusé. Dans le premier texte, Béla, un vieil officier, Maximitch, conte les aventures de Petchorin qui enleva Béla, la fille d'un prince tartare.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

Женщина ждет вольнолюбивого охотника уже 12 лет, а тот, женившись в пьяном виде, не торопится к ней в дом. Он егерь, лучший стрелок, а она скотница, по мнению мужчины, не могут быть парой. Актуальный рассказ Чехова заставляет задуматься. Сколько женщин страдает в ожидании любимого, который не может нагуляться, насытиться мнимой свободой от семейных обязанностей.

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road, accidentally meets his estranged wife, Pelageya, whom he's been married to for 12 years but visited just several times, and even then, drunk and violent. She weeps and, fawning before him, implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he, the best sportsman around, 'a pampered man', enjoying good tea and 'refined conversation', could not bear to live in a village.

Благодаря Чехову в русской литературе появилось понятие 'маленького человека'. Писатель дает такую характеристику и мелким чиновникам, и мещанам, и крестьянам. Классический тип 'маленького человека' представлен в рассказе 'Злоумышленник' Чехова.

Когда-то давным-давно, когда люди жили на деревьях, отбивались от врагов камнями, когда мужчины похищали друг у друга жён и из-за женщин же убивали друг друга- когда-то давным-давно захотели они идти вперёд и попробовали объядинить свои силы... Но как же всё повторяется в истории!

Огромное маковое поле и миллион оранжевых и золотистых цветов на нём- это, несомненно, радость, суета, опьянение и восторг. Но когда оно- собственность, и на эту собственность начинают посягать все, кому не лень...Трудно сохранять спокойствие и филосовский взгляд на жизнь...

Can an ordinary object - a watch, a piece of furniture, or an old rug - change the course of one's life? "Listen and find out" suggests an underappreciated master of Russian classical literature, Alexander Kuprin.

Andrey enters his final year of medical studies in 1854 with an empty belly, empty pockets, and secondhand clothes hanging together by wishful thinking. When Russia blunders into the misbegotten Crimean War, Tsar Nicholas recruits medical students to the front, and Andrey grabs at this flash of good luck. But his sanity is soon tested as he is forced to witness the most senseless and utter disregard for human life imaginable - where the death of a man holds no more significance than the death of a beetle.

"Mertvye dushi" - proizvedenie Nikolaya Vasil'evicha Gogolya, zhanr kotorogo sam avtor oboznachil kak poemu. Iznachal'no zadumano kak trekhtomnoe proizvedenie. Pervyy tom byl izdan v 1842 godu. Ispolnyaet Mihail Ul'yanov.

Ivan Ivanovitch et Ivan Nikoforovitch sont voisins. S'ils sont de complexions fort dissemblables - l'un occupe son temps à la conduite de ses affaires quand l'autre préfère tendre béatement son dos au soleil - ces deux notables de Mirgorod n'en sont pas moins les meilleurs amis du monde. Une dispute pour des vétilles va pourtant remettre en question cette belle amitié et, malgré les efforts des autres notables de la ville, les entraîner dans des démarches judiciaires pour le moins démesurées.

Je n'avais pas encore onze ans, lorsqu'au mois de juillet on m'envoya passer quelque temps aux environs de Moscou, dans une terre appartenant à un de mes parents, M. T***, qui continuellement réunissait alors chez lui une cinquantaine d'invités, peut-être même davantage ; car, je dois le dire, ces souvenirs sont lointains !

"Just think of the color and vivacity that love can bring back into your life. You know, they say there are seventeen shades of love!" "Seventeen shades?" Julia sobbed even louder. "What am I supposed to do with that?" (A quote from the story with the same title as this book). This book is a collection of romantic short stories. It is a team work with an artist Larissa Makeeva. Her art helps to color the stories and the characters in the bright colors. In the seventeen shades of love.

Notes from the Underground is an 1864 existentialist novella written by the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The speaker, an unknown yet common type of man, writes in first person about his views on Western philosophy, as well as his stark analysis of his own life. The work is written as the ramblings of this retired government employee who seems to have a very pessimistic yet honest opinion on his own life, as well as the world as seen through his eyes.

Ein Stück Weltliteratur! Die Legende vom Großinquisitor ist ein Teil aus seinem genialen Romanwerk Die Brüder Karamasow ...

One day when she was younger and better looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill humoured and out of sorts. Both were bored and waiting for the heat of the day to be over in order to go for a walk. Read in English, unabridged.

Dmitri es casado y tiene tres hijos. En medio de unas vacaciones en Yalta, una mujer acompañada por un perrito blanco de Pomerania llama su atención. Luego de intentar seducirla, se entera de que tiene esposo. Una historia sobre los encuentros secretos y febriles de dos amantes.

”Farbror” är en skröplig, något senil, men välbärgad furste, som tillfälligt besöker staden Mordassov där han omgående tas under beskydd av stadens mäktiga första dam, Marja Aleksándrovna. Hon smider en plan för att få honom gift med hennes vackra, 23-åriga dotter Sina, men den stolta Sina samt konkurrerande friare och rivaler komplicerar det hela och Marja Aleksándrovna måste därför utveckla hela sitt mästerliga register av övertalning, konspiration och intriger.