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A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time By Mikhail Lermontov Introduction by Gary Shteyngart Translated by Marian Schwartz Modern Library, 2004 Advance praise for A Hero of Our Time: It's high time an up-to-date and idiomatic version of A Hero of Our Time was made available to American readers. Marian Schwartz's translation of Lermontov's classic adventure novel captures all [...]

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Envy, by Yuri Olesha

Envy By Yuri Olesha Introduction by Ken Kalfus Translated by Marian Schwartz New York Review Books, 2004 A classic of Soviet literature, Envy is a humorous look at the individual’s struggle with an industrialized society. Marian Schwartz’s new English translation captures the energy and strangeness of this Russian masterpiece. A tour-de-force that has been compared to the [...]

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Cape of Storms, by Nina Berberova

Cape of Storms By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2000 Cape of Storms, one of the great Russian writer's most fascinating novels, was published serially in 1951 in the Novyi Zhurnal -- and Nina Berberova herself, late in life, took the old migr journals off a shelf and handed them to distinguished translator [...]

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The Book of Happiness, by Nina Berberova

The Book of Happiness By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 1999 An outstanding novel about a young Russian woman's life in exile after the Russian Revolution. The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived in Paris, and the most [...]

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