15 must-read classics books like The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov

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The River Potudan

By: Andrei Platonov

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes,…

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Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

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"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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3. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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4. Pushkin Hills

By: Sergei Dovlatov , Katherine Dovlatov

4.18

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife … read more

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5. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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6. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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7. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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8. Homo Zapiens

By: Victor Pelevin , Andrew Bromfield

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things t… read more

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  • russian literature
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9. Aloysha the Pot

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.16

Format: 331 pages, ebook

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy read more

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10. Envy

By: Marian Schwartz , Ken Kalfus , Yury Olesha , Natan Altman

3.71

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Na… read more

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11. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

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12. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

By: Isaac Babel , Cynthia Ozick , Peter Constantine , None

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babelin the fall of 2001… read more

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13. Moscow to the End of the Line

By: Venedikt Erofeev , None

4.04

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and ho… read more

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"...in Petushki the jasmine never stops blooming and the birds always sing..."

-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

"В Сибири вообще никто не живет, одни только негры живут. Продуктов им туда не завозят, выпить им нечего, не говоря уж "поесть". Только один раз в год им привозят из Житомира вышитые полотенца - и нег…"

-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

"Ард түмэн үхрийн мах худалдан авч чадахгүй байна, гэтэл архи түүнээс нь хямдхан байдаг, чухам иймээс л, орос эрчүүд ядуурлаас болж архи ууцгааж байна! Ард түмэн ном худалдан авч чадахгүй байна, яагаа…"

-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

"I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride. You can imagine what eyes are like (in the capitalist world). ...such eyes look at you with…"

-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

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14. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

15. Berlin Alexanderplatz

By: Alfred Döblin

4.10

Format: None pages,

Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more

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16. Invitation to a Beheading

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more

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17. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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18. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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19. Старуха = The Old Woman

By: Daniil Kharms

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Edition in Russian and English. read more

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"Она: Вы любите пиво? Я: Нет, я больше люблю водку. Она: Я тоже люблю водку. Я: Вы любите водку? Как это хорошо! Я хотел бы когда-нибудь с вами вместе выпить. Она: И я тоже хотела бы выпить с вами вод…"

-Daniil Kharms, Старуха = The Old Woman

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20. My First Goose

By: Isaac Babel

3.40

Format: None pages, None

Après l'arrestation de Babel en 1939, un interdit absolu a pesé sur l'homme et sur son oeuvre. Son … read more

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21. The River Potudan

By: Andrei Platonov

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes,… read more

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

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Gooseberries and other stories

Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

4.15

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Pushkin Hills

Sergei Dovlatov , Katherine Dovlatov

4.18

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Junot Díaz

3.89

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Jonathan Franzen

3.78

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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