https://www.internationalbooks.ie The Language Specialist Bookshop Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.internationalbooks.ie/wp-content/uploads/favicon-32x32.png https://www.internationalbooks.ie 32 32 https://www.internationalbooks.ie/product/9780486262444/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:50:35 +0000 https://www.internationalbooks.ie/?post_type=product&p=23645 The story, or novella, as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries, but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories — memorable tales by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and other masters. Each selection is presented here in the original Russian with an excellent literal English translation on the facing pages.
Also included are linguistic and cultural notes, a Russian-English vocabulary, study questions and more. In addition, Professor Struve has supplied an enlightening introduction to the Russian short story, as well as concise biographical/critical introductions to each selection. An especially helpful feature for students of Russian is the presence of stress accents in the Russian text, a feature usually found only in primers.

]]> https://www.internationalbooks.ie/product/9780486493923/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:27:48 +0000 https://www.internationalbooks.ie/?post_type=product&p=19212 This original dual-language edition features new translations of stories selected from the authoritative three-volume collection by famed author Alexander Afanasyev, Popular Russian Tales. Afanasyev recorded hundreds of folktales, the first compilations of which were published between 1855 and 1867 and featured such characteristically Russian figures as Vasilisa, Baba Yaga, Ivan Tsarevich, and the glorious Firebird. This edition’s fables include The Little Hen; The Cockerel and the Hand-Mill; Baba Yaga; The Little White Duck; and Ivanko Medvedko.
Suitable for high school and college intermediate-level Russian classes, these timeless tales will captivate readers of all ages. Left-hand pages feature the original Russian text; right-hand pages contain the new English translation by Sergey Levchin, who provides an informative Introduction.

]]> https://www.internationalbooks.ie/product/9780486488738/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:04:19 +0000 https://www.modernlanguages.ie/product/great-russian-short-stories-of-the-twentieth-century-a-dual-language-book/ This dual-language anthology presents fifteen compelling tales in a unique survey of twentieth-century Russian short fiction. Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include “The Fugitive” by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, “The Present” by Leonid Andreev, “Trataton” by Dimitry Mamin-Sibiryak, “Life Granted” by Aleksandr Grin, and “Icarus” by Stepan Skitalets, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Kuprin, and others.
No further apparatus or reference work is necessary for the self-contained text. Appropriate for high school and college courses as well as self-study, this volume will prove a fine companion for teachers and intermediate-level students of Russian language and literature as well as readers wishing to brush up on their language skills.
Dover Original.

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