February 02, 2005

Book Picks - Literature

by Linda DeLaine

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Hardcover, 736pp.
Barnes & Noble Books
October 1992

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jon Surgal (Introduction)
Hardcover, 729pp.
Barnes & Noble Books
September 1995

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hardcover, 449pp.
Barnes & Noble Books
June 1994

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Hardcover, 696pp.
Barnes & Noble Books
October 1992

Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers (Editor)
Paperback, 324pp.
Harcourt
September 1982

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol, Leonard J. Kent (Editor)
Paperback, 259pp.
University of Chicago Press
February 1985

Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Hardcover, 392pp.
A B C-CLIO, Inc.
December 1998

A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish (Translator)
Paperback, 225pp.
Penguin USA
January 1988

The Essential Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Editor)
Paperback, 884pp.
Northwestern University Press
June 1993

The Plays of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, Paul Schmidt (Translator)
Paperback, 400pp.
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
April 1998

Chekhov Stories: 1883-1888 (Modern Library Series)

Chekhov Stories: 1883-1888
Anton Chekhov, Shelby Foote (Introduction)
Hardcover, 642pp.
Random House, Incorporated
April 1998

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