Max Hayward

"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, 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 internatrional controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...

This is the first comprehensive anthology of Russian poetry in English to span the entire twentieth century, from the Tsar's reign to the August putsch in 1991. Here are 253 remarkable poets gathered by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Yevtushenko has chosen some 830 poems that reflect the various modes of Russian literary discourse -- from powerful declamations and witty observations to moving lyrics and mournful elegies. Each poet receives a detailed biography...

Anna Akhmatova died in 1966, acclaimed as Russia's greatest woman poet. Her brilliant, intense work, of which this volume is a careful selection, can be read in sequence as a powerful chronicle of her country in the twentieth century. Before 1918 she wrote avant-garde verse, was star of the St. Petersburg literary circle and a friend of Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Alexander Blok. She lived through the Revolution and the two world wars, endured...