Larissa Volokhonsky
Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian.
Together, Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol, The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov, and The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina), and their translation of Dostoevsky's Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They...
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Hardcover | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Collections - Russian & Former Soviet Union; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-26882-2 (0-307-26882-9)
March 26, 2013 | $41.00
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The award-winning translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery, whose earthy and exuberant stories, famous in his own country, have never before been adequately translated into English.
Leskov was Chekhov’s favorite writer and was greatly admired by Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. His...
eBook | 608 pages | Knopf | Literary Collections - Russian & Former Soviet Union; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-96236-2 (0-307-96236-9)
March 26, 2013 | $15.99
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Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in...
Trade Paperback | 64 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-95133-5 (0-307-95133-2)
October 2, 2012 | $10.00
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Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from...
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-95134-2 (0-307-95134-0)
October 2, 2012 | $11.00
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Tolstoy’s final work—a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers—is a powerful moral fable for our time.
Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has...
eBook | 592 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-82960-3 (0-307-82960-X)
August 8, 2012 | $13.99
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With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.
eBook | 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90189-4 (0-553-90189-3)
July 18, 2012 | $13.99
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-8337-1 (0-8129-8337-8)
January 3, 2012 | $17.00
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From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces.
Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to...
eBook | 1296 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-80658-1 (0-307-80658-8)
October 5, 2011 | $13.99
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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out...
Trade Paperback | 704 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39095-0 (0-307-39095-0)
October 4, 2011 | $18.95
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First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in...
eBook | 464 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-80336-8 (0-307-80336-8)
August 17, 2011 | $13.99
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Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-93437-6 (0-307-93437-3)
June 14, 2011 | $37.50
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Boris Pasternak’s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, “the English-speaking world is indebted.”
First published in Italy in 1957 amid...
eBook | 384 pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-79361-4 (0-307-79361-3)
May 4, 2011 | $6.99
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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The...
eBook | 160 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-78464-3 (0-307-78464-9)
January 12, 2011 | $11.99
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence...
eBook | 544 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37996-2 (0-307-37996-5)
November 23, 2010 | $13.99
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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.
Hardcover | 544 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37769-2 (0-307-37769-5)
October 19, 2010 | $34.00
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Boris Pasternak’s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, “the English-speaking world is indebted.”
First published in Italy in 1957 amid...
