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A title in the BCP Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. In this story, in "village prose" style, Shukshin considers the plight of the rootless individual who is unable to return to his rural background, and settle down in a changing community.

This is a Russian text with English introduction and notes.

Chekhov's final dramatic masterpiece displays a touching contrast between the tragic quality of its subject matter and the comic quality of the characters who act it out. The absence of action itself creates dramatic tension, with the doomed cherry orchard symbolises the decline of the Russian gentry. Memory, dreams and the dispossession of property are the main features of Chekhov's poignant 'vaudeville', now commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays in the Russian language.

This edition contains three of Ta'tiana Tolstaia's stories: "Sweet Shura" ("Milaia Shura"), "Peters" ("Peters"), and "The Okkerril River" ("Reka Okkerril"). The book is in Russian language with English notes and vocabulary that explain Tolstaia's stylistic characteristics.

A fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, the introduction tells the story of its publication, gives a brief biography of the author and a vocabulary and notes.

Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally admired of Pushkin's stories, it has earned a high place amongst his works as a whole and in many ways is the embodiment of 'essential' Pushkin. With its play on both psychology and the fantastic, its tersely precise language and its openness to multiple readings, it continues to mesmerise critics, teachers and students alike.This book contains the complete text in Russian of The Queen of Spades, with an introduction to Pushkin's life and work. The text is also supplemented with extensive notes in English and a complete vocabulary.

This collection of stories by Solzhenitsyn is part of the "BCP Russian Texts" series, designed to meet the needs of the growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an expert.

A title in the BCP Russian Texts series, in Russian language with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. "The River Potudan" (1937), should introduce the student to the thought and ideas that writers like Platonov, despite the severity of the times, were able, and brave enough, to convey.

This book contains the Russian text of Karamzin's Poor Liza, edited with an English language introduction and notes