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A Country Doctor’s Notebook

A Country Doctor’s Notebook

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With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five year old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into...

The Heart of a Dog

The Heart of a Dog

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A world-famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific...

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

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A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His...

The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories

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"Twenty major [male] Russian writers are represented in this collection beginning with Pushkin,...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

Ears of wheat from below with a bright blue sky and clouds

I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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