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A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) by Ivan Turgenev; Boris Dralyuk (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
This riverrun edition of Turgenev's most accomplished stories contains A Nest of Gentlefolk, A Quiet Backwater, First Love, and A Lear of the Steppes - the defining masterpieces of his career. Justly celebrated as a novelist, playwright, and poet, these stories encapsulate his skills: in the scope and s ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (Riverrun Editions) by Leo Tolstoy; Andrew O'Hagan (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and YouthPublished in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy ...Show more
Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...Show more
Five Women by Robert Musil; Eithne Wilkins (Translator); Ernst Kaiser (Translator); Rivka Galchen (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not en ...Show more
Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later storie ...Show more
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers by Sigmund Freud; Joan Riviere (Translator); Lisa Appignanesi (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on met ...Show more
THE MAN WHO LOVED ISLANDS: SIXTEEN STORIES BY D H LAWRENCE by Lawrence D H
Category: No Category | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
‘Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence’s bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox’s brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace’ Frances Wilson, from her Introduction to The Man Who Loves Islands ...Show more
The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Shar ...Show more
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov + Janet Malcolm (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
A young man tries to figure out the best way to live. A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage. A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient. This riverrun edition presents a selection of Chekhov's longer stories - novellas, effectively - in Constance Garnett ...Show more
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