The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazor changes the lives of his sons irrevocably.
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is…
Dalam jilid pertama, dikisahkan Anna akhirnya pisah ranjang dengan sang suami, Karenin. Sang suami pun sudah menghubungi pengacara untuk mengurus perceraian mereka. Dalam jilid dua ini drama percintaan Anna dan kekasihnya, Vronskii, semakin menegangkan. Vronskii menembak diri setelah tahu Anna berniat kembali kepada Karenin‒tapi selamat dan pasangan kekasih itu pun bersatu lagi. Namun ini buk…
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in thi…
The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts their squalor and degradation, their terror and resignation, from the rampages of a psychopath to the brief serenity of Christmas Day. Amid the horror of labour in the sub-zero work camp, we hear the stories of the prisoners, and li…
Demi mencari si elang pujaan hatinya, Mariutzka rela menempuh perjalanan yang jauh dan penuh marabahaya. akhirnya, dibantu oleh tiga penyihir, dia berhasil menemui si elang. Lalu si elang membawanya tinggal di istana dan mereka pun hidup bahagia selamanya.