Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) was a Soviet writer of poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and journalism.Robert Chandler has translated widely from Russian. He is also the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2006) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).
41 Ebooks por Robert Chandler
Andrei Platonov: Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov’s plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (tra …
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Teffi: SUBTLY WORDED AND OTHER STORIES
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov, Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin …
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€10.00
Teffi: Rasputin and Other Ironies
A new collection of Teffi's best autobiographical non-fiction writings Ranging from portraits of Rasputin and Lenin to observations on the Russian Revolution, and from profiles of cultural figur …
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€11.99
Robert Chandler: A Short Life of Pushkin
A short yet fascinating account of Russia's most celebrated writer Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is widely regarded as Russia's greatest poet. In this short, exquisite biography, Robert Cha …
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€7.00
Vasily Grossman: Armenian Sketchbook
Few writers had to confront so many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, …
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Vasily Grossman: Road
By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short …
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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
‘She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle’In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into gee …
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Robert Chandler: Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from ma …
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Robert Chandler & Boris Dralyuk: Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nin …
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Chandler Robert C. Chandler: Business and Corporate Integrity
There is a crisis of trustworthiness in business and corporate integrity. This book identifies the specific actions to create and sustain integrity in businesses and corporations-steps that can resto …
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Vasily Grossman: Everything Flows
‘Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler’s superb translation makes it a joy to read’Antony Beevor Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag fo …
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Hamid Ismailov: Railway
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurispr …
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Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad
‘One of the great novels of the 20th century’ Observer In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hun …
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Andrey Platonov: Happy Moscow
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin’s words, ‘life has become better, life has become merri …
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Andrey Platonov: Foundation Pit
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov’s dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant futur …
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Andrey Platonov: Soul
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER’For the mind, everthing is in the future’ Platonov once wrote; ‘for the heart, everything is in the past’. The protagonist of Soul …
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Lev Ozerov: Portraits Without Frames
Lev Ozerov’s finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pastern …
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Chandler Robert C. Chandler: Emergency Notification
This text provides critical information to help organizations improve their emergency communications, including the tools, automation technology, and processes of crisis notification.To grasp the imp …
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€48.55
Andrei Platonovich Platonov: La zanja
Rusia interior, años treinta. Un equipo de trabajadores se dedica a excavar los cimientos de un inmenso edificio: una casa palaciega para el futuro perfecto socialista que, están convencidos, está …
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Andrey Platonov: Return and Other Stories
"Reading Platonov, one gets a sense of the relentless, implacable absurdity built into the language and with each…utterance, that absurdity deepens" – Joseph Brodsky People are on the mov …
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Vasily Grossman: Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of Stalingr …
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Andrey Platonov: Chevengur
‘Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century’ New York Review of Books The Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writer …
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Teffi: And Time Was No More
The finest work by the great Russian writer Teffi, in a new selection by the acclaimed Robert Chandler__________’Heartbreaking as well as very funny. I wish she were still alive, and I could have met …
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€9.59
Igor Golomstock: Ransomed Dissident
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted ‘tr …
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Igor Golomstock: Ransomed Dissident
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted ‘tr …
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€37.03
Robert Chandler: Shadow World
America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn’t just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it’s a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left co …
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€15.57
Guillaume Apollinaire & Velimir Khlebnikov: Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler __________ ‘A wonderfu …
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€10.79
