As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray ...

This is the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), a great comic writer whose works are now regarded as modern classics both in the Soviet ...

From the acclaimed author of Suite Française comes Némirovsky’s third novel, a masterpiece of French literature, available for the first time in Canada. Le Bal is a penetrating ...

Set in Moscow of the 1920s, this satirical novel recounts the dealings that a writer and his mistress have with Satan, in a work that weaves together satire, realism, art ...

Biographical account of the seventeenth-century playwright, producer and actor, tells of his early struggles, his loves and career