| 1. |  | Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $9.95
Customer Review:
Book arrived with crumpled front cover. It was not possible to tell if it was shipped this way or damaged in transit. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
from Zephyr Press
Price: $22.72
Customer Review:
AA is a true poetic spirit. If you are interested in finding out how true poets get inspired, here is a good example. I would caution readers though, that there is an a sense of pessimism, sadness and a nauseating mood that permeates many of the poems, but there is diversity though. Here is a human... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $11.01
Customer Review:
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS
TITLE: Dead Souls
AUTHOR: Nikolai Gogol
TRANSLATOR: Christopher English
PLOT: Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov has been dismissed from civil service, but not all hope is lost. He decides to stroll across the Russian countryside in order... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Anna Akhmatova (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
from Everyman's Library
Price: $10.63
Customer Review:
This is a excellent selection of poems by the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. The translations are by the noted Russian scholar Max Hayward and the noted American poet Stanley Kunitz. As a non-Russian speaker, I can't really judge the quality of translations but the end product is terrific. There... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
from Mithec
Price: $9.95
Customer Review:
WE ALL KNOW THAT STATISTICS IS A METHOD OF INTERPRETATION.
THERE ARE DOZENS OF BOOKS NAMED "LYING WITH STATISTICS"
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| 6. |  | Less Than One: Selected Essays
from Farrar Straus Giroux
Customer Review:
This collection of essays is by one of the great Russian poets of this century. In it he writes of his life and poetry, and of those poets who have meant much to him. His memoir of his separation from his parents, their twelve - year effort to reunite while being refused by the Soviet Authorities is... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (New York Review Books Classics)
from NYRB Classics
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I like Merwin's Mandelstam more than that of five other translators with whom I've compared Mandelstam translations. It often takes three readings of a Mandelstam poem to get why it was written---not what it is about, please---but WHY it was written. That is what you look for. After that the sense... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Customer Review:
I wish to make it clear that the 2001 review published below when I was at Oberlin College is NOT of this Oxford World Classics edition-- with which I am unfamiliar-- but rather of a previous Dover Thrift Edition.
I am shocked that Amazon places reviews of different translated editions of the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
from Modern Library
Price: $20.70
Customer Review:
Nadezhda Mandelstam's haunting memoir describes life with her exiled poet husband during the 1920s and 1930s in the Soviet Union, as the noose of the government gradually tightened around the intelligentsia and culminated in the years of the Great Terror, when no one was safe. She and her husband... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
While the current review is lovely, it's quite wordy for my attention span--I am sure some share my sentiments. Simply put: buy this publication if you like Anton Chekhov. The editor's autobiography and narrative is comprehensive, readable and not at all boring--the included maps are a nice touch... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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