russian

The Undiscovered Chekhov

Unpublished works collected and translated by Peter Constantine

The Kreutzer Sonata

A novella that is the confession of Pozdnyshev, a man who recounts the tragic unraveling of his life and marriage. Very Russian fare.

We

The book that influenced Orwell, Huxley and Rand.

Uncle Vanya

Vanya is a middle-aged professor who feels disillusioned with his life and bitter about his wasted potential.

The Nose

follows the bizarre misadventures of Major Kovalyov and his missing nose

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

…a high-ranking Russian bureaucrat, and his gradual realization of his own mortality as he faces a terminal illness.

Laughter in the Dark

In Nabokov’s icy Berlin fable of fatal infatuation, an affluent, mediocre art critic trades his comfortable domestic life for a vulgar young usherette, only to be systematically blinded, betrayed, and ushered to his doom by the ruthless lovers who manipulate his sightless world.