My Childhood
Author: Maxim Gorky
Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky’s childhood equipped him to understand – in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev – the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his….Read More
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.Richard Flanagan's story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical Asian Fiction, Historical Japanese Fiction, Illustrated, Railroads In Literature, Text
The Heart of a Dog
Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense - The TimesA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray and attempts a… Continue Reading Posted in: Animal Experimentation, Classic Literature & Fiction, History, Satire
The Outsider
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Eugene Onegin
Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country estate that he has recently inherited. There he begins an unlikely friendship… Continue Reading Posted in: 1799 1837, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Bibliography, Fiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Pushkin, Russian Poetry
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