Vneshne syuzhet knigi neslozhen. Molodoj biolog Viktor Sluzhkin ot bezdenezh'ya idet rabotat' uchitelem geografii v obychnuyu permskuyu shkolu. On boretsya, a potom i druzhit s uchenikami, konfliktuet…
2081 год. После катастрофы страна была изолирована от внешнего мира. Русскую литературу, объявленную источником всех бед, заменили шахматами, а вместо романов Толстого, Достоевского и Тургенева в школ…
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-…
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820…
Вторая книга цикла о расследованиях графа Аверина.
В Петербурге исчезает несколько девушек, в это же время из-подо льда достают труп убитой дивы без головы. Человеческий закон до сих пор не запрещает м…
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must de…
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West w…
In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hops a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon ange…
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the ce…
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proc…
