Customer Review: I have enjoyed reading this translation. I applaud the retention of the orignal French. I do not know Russian so I cannot judge this translation by comparing it with others on the ground of fidelity to the original. As a reader, however, I think the old Maude translation is occasionally smoother and... more info
Customer Review: Needless to say, those around me weren't too happy with me the day I read the oh-so-genius "The Master and Margarita". I'm trying to remember the last time a book influenced me this much and made me realize its genius halfway through and laugh hysterically throughout appreciatively. It was probably... more info
Customer Review: Dostoevsky. Possibly the greatest novelist that has graced our planet. A maelstrom of philosophical & psychological drama. A tormented delicacy for the serious reader.
Customer Review: A mathematics professor pointedly declared to the Dean of Liberal Arts at the local university that her literature courses should be dumped because fiction is just made up stuff. Tell that to Alexandre Solzhenitsyn. Tell that to Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"... more info
Customer Review: This superb novel presents readers with Anna Karenina, the trapped and bored wife of a Russian gentleman who, despite her staid and comfortable life, chooses to toss everything out the window in pursuit of a foppish count. Modern readers may admire her spunk and independence, but in Tolstoy's world,... more info
Customer Review: This was a dark comedy exposing the vanity of liberal enlightenment thinking. The book is often grim, bracing, and anti-climactic. It is the story of some deranged lunatic who boasts of his inability to adapt to society. He is indeed sick, as the opening line, one of the most famous in all of... more info
Customer Review: Lord have mercy this book is terrible. I read a lot and am quite capable of reading a long & complex book, but this just makes no sense. Russian loner sulks in his apartment. Oh and then on the street. Then he goes to some other folks' apartments & sulks. In between he has hundreds of pages... more info
Customer Review: Tolstoy goes far beyond just hitting the peaks of the story but also, writes at length on the hills, valleys, and everything in between (the material that other authors leave out). It is exhaustively detailed, down to the most mundane description of a character. Being that the high-points are few... more info
Customer Review: Welcome to the glittering world of dyschronic post-modernist criticism, which has enabled me to recognize that 'Crime and Punishment', published in 1866, was written as a prescient refutation of the Objectivist philosophy expressed in Ayn Rand's novels 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged'.... more info
Customer Review: Anna Karenina. She was an amazing woman. But no less amazing than the other characters in the novel. Tolstoy was a brilliant man and writer. He knows how to blend plot and thought like few others. After reading his novels, I am convinced that he was a keen observer of human nature and interactions.... more info
