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Russian Classics for the Restless Soul
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items Russian novels, stories, and philosophical works for those drawn to deep questions of suffering, faith, freedom, beauty, and moral struggle. A shelf for restless minds and souls seeking truth beneath ordinary life.
Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace—presented here i...
Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace”
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters ...
Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull—now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic me...
Anton Chekhov
"Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard"
Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. Thes...
Anton Chekhov
"Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895"
Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his o...
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov & The Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his son...
Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”
A Dostoyevsky classic about suffering and sickness, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with 'a truly beautiful soul' and to trace...
Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Idiot”
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until ...
Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”
A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read At a glittering society party in St. P...
Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace”
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mer...
Nikolai Berdyaev"The Meaning of the Creative Act"
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mer...
Nikolai Berdyaev"Slavery and Freedom"
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mer...
Nikolai Berdyaev"The Destiny of Man"
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it ...
Alexander Pushkin"Eugene Onegin"
Winner of the 2020 Read Russia Prize A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood A Penguin Classic Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, based on the statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great fl...
Alexander Pushkin "Selected Poetry"
The writings of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944) like those of other major social thinkers of Russia's Silver Age were obliterated from public consciousness under Soviet rule. Discovered again after eighty years of silence Bulgakov's work speaks with rema...
Sergei Bulgakov "Philosophy of Economy"
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.“Bakht...
Mikhail Bakhtin "Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics"
A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival. Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, laughter, the grotesque, and medieval and renaissance folk culture has been the inspiration for countless new i...
Mikhail Bakhtin Rabelais and His World
With its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism, shot through with reflections on personal religious experiences, Unfading Light documents what a life in Orthodoxy came to mean for Sergius Bulgakov...
Sergei Bulgakov "Unfading Light"