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Showing 1 - 12 of 13 results for “hugh aplin”
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  • The Master & Margarita

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, " a classic of twentieth-century fiction" ( The New York Times).In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit.In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold.At the intersection of fantasy and realism, ... Read more

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  • Diaboliad

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    "Bulgakov's strong point was his ability to amplify the roots of man's dementia, the howls of political pandemonium . . . a lively collection." — The Washington Post Book WorldMikhail Bulgakov's Diaboliad and Other Stories, comprised of Diaboliad, No. 13–The Elpit Workers' Commune, A Chinese Tale, and The Adventures of Chichikov, serves as an excellent introduction to this renowned Russian ... Read more

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  • Diaries & Selected Letters

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    This volume of personal writings offers an intimate view of the celebrated Russian author's life and creative process in the face of Soviet censorship.Best known for his biting satire of Soviet society, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov kept meticulous journals, written with keen humor and insight, about his day to day life in Moscow as well as the wider social and political life of early ... Read more

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  • Morphine

    by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    Series series New Directions Pearls
    From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addictionYoung Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • We

    by Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • X and Other Stories

    New Translation

    by Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    From the stark depictions of rural Russia in ‘Provincial Life’ to the vivid portrayal of an artillery unit in ‘At the End of the Earth’, from stories such as ‘The Cave’ and ‘Mamai’, describing the terrible conditions endured by the citizens of Petrograd in the years of the civil war, to ‘X’, a light-hearted, slightly absurdist example of metafiction, through to the sombre tones of the final story ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dark Avenues

    by Ivan Bunin ...
    Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Village

    by Ivan Bunin ...
    Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.At once nostalgic for a ... Read more

    $8.29 USD

  • The Mother

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    A book of the utmost importance"", in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother - here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English translation in almost a century - will enchant modern readers both for its historical significance and its intrinsic value as a work of art. Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Faust

    by Ivan Turgenev ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe’s masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera’s eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but also a world of unbridled feelings and tempestuous passions, which can only shatter the comfort ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Plays

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines.Collected in this volume are Chekhov’s four most celebrated plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD