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The best collection of Russian short stories includes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Kholstomer, the Story of a Horse, Alyosha the Pot, A Letter to a Hindu, A Confession, God Sees the Truth, but Waits, A Russian Christmas Party. Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka, Gusev, The Darling, The Lady with the Dog, A Slander, The Horse-Stealers, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-GlassOld Age, Darkness, The Beggar, In Trouble, Frost, Minds in Ferment, Gone Astray.

"Все, что я хотел сказать журналистам, я сказал... в этой книге".Авторская фраза, брошенная в ответ на вопросы корреспондентов и будущих критиков…Пелевин – это Пелевин!

Con un texto elaborado en prosa poética, "Noches blancas" podría definirse como una tragedia narrada por un soñador. Dostoievski, desde su personal visión sentimental, reflexiva e irónica, dibuja en esta novela una serie de cuadros de la ciudad de San Petersburgo en los que, ensueño y realidad se confunden como proyecciones de la ardiente imaginación de un soñador. Queda patente la destreza del autor para profundizar en el ser de sus personajes, alejarse de lo moral y dejar al descubierto que el alma de los hombres está llena de claroscuros.

A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means?

Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story. Hermann, a young German officer serving in the Engineers regiment, is obsessed by gambling, although he never indulges in it himself. One night he hears a tale about how a wealthy 87-year-old Countess in St. Petersburg once learned the secret of how to win on three cards from the Duc d'Orleans. He becomes obsessed with learning the secret himself. In pursuit of this aim, he becomes enamoured of the Countess' companion, the beautiful Lizaveta.

Издательский Дом "Союз" продолжает серию аудиокниг "Всемирная аудио библиотека" и представляет вашему вниманию второй аудио сборник "Классика русского рассказа", в который вошли лучшие произведения русской классической литературы.

Moskau zu Beginn der 1930er-Jahre: Der Teufel sucht die Stadt heim und stürzt ihre Bewohner mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung seiner Zauberlehrlinge in ein Chaos aus Hypnose, Spuk und Zerstörung. Es ist die verdiente Strafe für Heuchelei, Korruption und Mittelmaß. Doch zwei Gerechte genießen Satans Sympathie: der im Irrenhaus sitzende Schriftsteller, genannt "Meister", und Margarita, dessen einstige Geliebte. Bulgakows Gesellschaftssatire aus der Sowjetzeit ist ein faustisch-fantastisches Meisterwerk.

Una de las mas amargas creaciones de Dostoyevsky, El Jugador es una novela autobiografica que describe tristes experiencias que tuvo el gran escritor. Los protagonistas son todos fanaticos del juego, en este ganan, pierden y ponen todas sus esperanzas, no tanto por la ganancia economica sino por la emocion.

Игрок — произведение классика русской литературы и одного из лучших романистов мирового уровня Ф. М. Достоевского (1821–1881). Это захватывающая история азарта, ставшего для героя не просто смыслом игры в рулетку и даже не смыслом жизни, а просто основой бытия в состоянии постоянного психологического дискомфорта. Достоевский известен как автор многих выдающихся произведений: "Подросток", "Записки из мертвого дома", "Двойник", "Дядюшкин сон", "Идиот", "Братья Карамазовы", "Чужая жена и муж под кроватью", "Сон смешного человека", "Дневник писателя".

The most famous opening line in Russian literature announces a novel about the costs of happiness. The most famous ending announces that happiness was never the subject. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina is married to a man she respects but cannot love. She meets Vronsky at a train station. What follows is not a love story — it is an anatomy of what happens when a person chooses desire over duty in a world that will not forgive that choice. Tolstoy does not punish Anna because she is immoral. He punishes her because her society does...

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 4 greatest works of non-fiction in one audiobook. The essays included here are: What is Art?, The Inevitable Revolution, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, A Confession.

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year...

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation and publisher), typically contained in two volumes.

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence.

Мы рады представить Вам бестселлер русской литературы - роман молодых одесситов Ильфа и Петрова "12 стульев" в прочтении Вениамина Смехова. Думаем, что не стоит пересказывать приключения главных героев - Остапа Бендера, Кисы Воробьянинова и Отца Федора, которые принесли нам так много уморительных минут смеха.

Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos despues del ultimo censo, puede lograr grandes subvenciones y esas son las almas muertas. La meta del autor fue "tratar de mostrar el alma rusa, con su variedad de dotes y riquezas morales pero tambien con sus defectos, que caracterizan al pueblo ruso".

Александр Павлович Чудаков (1938-2005) - российский филолог, литературовед и писатель, муж академика Мариэтты Чудаковой. Его единственным крупным художественным произведением стал историко-философский роман Ложится мгла на старые ступени, отмеченный в 2011 году премией "Русский Букер" как лучшая книга десятилетия.

Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a space that cannot be traversed.

Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities. Bulgakov's short stories are a world unto themselves—sharp, witty, and often unsettling. In these pages, the absurdity of Soviet life collides with the supernatural, the grotesque meets the comic, and reality is always just a step away from slipping into nightmare.

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your listening pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature, Vladimir Odoyevsky.