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Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms, tone, precision, and poetry of Pasternak's original, bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers.
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War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Pierre searches for purpose, Andrei for glory and Natasha for love, while Russia moves towards war.
Tolstoy’s enthralling epic depicts Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict.
Moving between St Petersburg, Moscow, country estates and battlefields, War and Peace follows families linked by love, ambition, inheritance and history. At its heart are Pierre Bezukhov, thoughtful and impulsive; Prince Andrei, restless and ambitious; and Natasha Rostov, whose vitality changes the lives around her.
This is a classic Russian epic about war, love, family and the search for meaning. Vast in scope yet intimate in feeling, Tolstoy brings public history and private emotion together, showing how individuals are shaped by forces they can neither control nor fully understand.
War and Peace is essential reading for anyone drawn to historical fiction, literary classics and novels that ask what it means to live morally in a world of upheaval.
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'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times
'It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book, this would be it' Andrew Marr
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war.
Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.
'One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century' Daily Telegraph
'Compelling... Grossman's portrait is timelessly relevant... Life and Fate is worth all the audience it can find' The Times
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Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
A glittering affair begins in Russian high society.
Tolstoy follows its consequences through marriage, family and the search for meaning.
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her towards ruin.
Yet Anna Karenina is far more than one of world literature’s great love stories. Twinned with Anna’s story is that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials become part of his own search for meaning.
Moving between Moscow, St Petersburg and the Russian countryside, Tolstoy creates a rich social novel about desire, family, morality and spiritual uncertainty. Anna’s defiance of society is set against Levin’s attempts to understand work, faith, marriage and goodness, giving the novel its extraordinary emotional and philosophical range.
Tolstoy’s power lies in the patience with which he follows every contradiction of feeling: tenderness and resentment, duty and longing, self-deception and moral clarity. The result is a Russian literary classic that feels vast in scope yet intimate in every judgement, gesture and private crisis.
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'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov
'I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa Gregory
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times
Bulgakov paints a powerful picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical classic.
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught.
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Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
In Dostoevsky’s great Russian classic, a murder sparks a battle for one man’s soul.
Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, and immured in poverty and deprivation, Raskolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime.
In the aftermath, he is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective. What begins as an act of self-justification becomes a feverish struggle with conscience, suspicion and fear. The only hope for redemption, if Raskolnikov can recognise it, lies in the virtuous and faithful Sonya.
Crime and Punishment is a classic Russian novel about guilt, poverty, morality and the divided self. Dostoevsky turns a story of murder into a profound psychological and philosophical drama, following one man through torment, pride and the possibility of grace. It remains essential reading for anyone interested in Russian classics and moral conflict.
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
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