Russian literature from New York Review Books

[Elizabeth Edmondson]

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1. _Virgin Soil_, Ivan Turgenev
This September, New York Review Books is bringing Turgenev's _Virgin Soil_
back into print for the first time in nearly twenty years. This rich and
complex book, at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny,
social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of
the immense beauty of the Russian countryside, is a tragic masterpiece in
which one of the world¹s finest novelists confronts the enduring question of
the place of happiness in a political world.

2. _The Fierce and Beautiful World_, Andrei Platonov
This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works
drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing, and long
unavailable, novella Dzahn, in which a young man returns to his Asian
birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of
memory and speech, and "The Potudan River," Platonov's most celebrated
story.

3. _Peasants and Other Stories_, Anton Chekhov
This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by
the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic
richness and complexity, published in the only paperback edition to present
them in the order in which they were written.

4. _Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist_, Alexander Berkman
In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian emigre, anarchist, and lover of Emma
Goldman, attempted--unsuccessfully--to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay
Frick.  Captured and sentenced to serve a prison term of twenty-two years,
Berkman struggled to make sense of the shadowy and brutalized world of the
prison--one that hardly conformed to revolutionary expectation.


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check out our website at www.nybooks.com or call 212-333-7900 to request a
catalog.

Elizabeth Edmondson
eedmondson at nybooks.com

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