Mister Cat-And-A-Half

By Richard Pevear

A cat with a reputation for being fierce is invited to dinner by the forest animals, where a chain of accidents ensures the continuation of this erroneous belief.

The absentminded fellow

By Samuil Marshak

From the time he puts his pants on his arms until he tries to buy a train ticket at the flower shop, "that absentminded fellow from Portobello Road" bumbles from one muddle to the next.

Dead Souls

By Richard Pevear, Nikolaj Vasil Evic Gogol

Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature - Nikolai Gogol's satirical epic of life, both real and fantastic, in the benighted provinces. Here are the isolated villages, the po...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

By Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Nikolaj Vasil Evic Gogol

"Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a new translation - from an award-winning team of translators - presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glo...

Exchanges

By Richard Pevear

Night talk, and other poems

By Richard Pevear Translator

Night talk, and other poems

By Richard Pevear, Richard Pevear Translator

Mister Cat-and-a-half

By Richard Pevear Translator

Conjunctions

By Gregory Rabassa, Edmund Keeley, Larissa Volokhonsky Translator, Burton Pike, Keith Waldrop, Richard Howard, Richard Pevear, Edith Grossman, Breon Mitchell

Notes from Underground

By Larissa Volokhonsky Introduction By Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated By Richard Pevear

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....