This collection of thirteen short stories is peopled by memorable characters leading misunderstood lives and explores their complex relationships with one another and with life

The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikely heroes of recent times. The twenty-five-year-old unhappy lover to a fat ...

A team of Moscow scientists, headed by the brilliant Victor Kolomeitsev, explores the primitive Siberian "taiga," a land of pristine beauty, in search of a precious metal

A semi-autobiographical novel about a geezer who talks to himself, eats road kill, and would like to overthrow the Government.

“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell ...

Her engagement to William Shakespeare broken by his forced marriage to a pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery, Anne Whateley pursues a clandestine and dangerous affair with the ...

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 ...

Thirteen early stories of the Russian emigre master reveal the often lonely, forboding world of the exile.