Usually interpreted as a diatribe against the Chernyshevsky generation, it is a work that is often referred to, but rarely read. Cioran's translation is not only readable, but is evocative of the wit …
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one o…
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics (1899), as well as several lesser-known works, no less masterful in their composition. David Plante is a Professo…
یک اتفاق مسخره در سال ۱۸۶۲ منتشر شد. این آخرین داستانی بود که داستایفسکی به تأثیر از نخستین استادش، گوگول، نوشت. داستان درباره‌ی صاحب‌منصبی که به مراسم عروسی یکی از زیردستانش می‌رود تا همه بفهمند چه ا…
Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly successful "The Story of Philosophy" traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece to Saint Augustine…
RUDIN (1856) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) tells the story of a character typical to Turgenev -- a "superfluous" man, weak of will, brimming with indecisive frustration -- and yet tormented …
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". I t was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and m…
در داش آکل خواننده نه تنها با فضای سال های ابتدایی پیدایش مدرنیسم در زمان حکومت رضا شاه آشنا می‌شود بلکه با نویسنده به خانه‌ها و خیابان‌ها می‌رود و از وضع زندگی مردم آگاه می‌شود. صادق هدایت داش آکل ر…
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of …
ژان تولی (۱۹۵۳) از نویسندگان پرکار و چندساحتی ادبیات فرانسه است. او هم رمان می‌نویسد، هم فیلم‌نامه، هم شعر و گاهی نیز کار کارتون و سینما می‌کند. نخستین کتابی که از او به فارسی درآمد، مغازهٔ خودکشی، اق…
"Father Sergius" (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.
