 | War and Peace (Modern Library) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $3.59 Perhaps the greatest novel ever written. Tolstoy's characters are so vivid that they seem to become genuine people whom you know.
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 | The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Alexander Pushkin
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $9.70 The famed poet also wrote prose that influenced Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and others.
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 | Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy used from: $2.98 Turgenev was the first Russian writer whose works were well known abroad.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $3.44 Arguably the first psychological novel written.
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 | The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol Vol. 2 by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $4.98 The brilliant writer's first volume of his collected stories, featuring numerous Ukrainian tales inspired by folklore.
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 | Dead Souls: A Novel by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.00 Gogol's magnum opus. Unfortunately, the second installment was burned by the author.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: $0.01 Portrays the harsh existence in the Soviet gulags.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.78 The novel is even more incredible than the movie.
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 | Plays (Penguin Classics) by Anton Chekhov
Buy used from: $0.01 Chekhov's plays illustrate the waning of society in tsarist Russia.
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 | Babel: Collected Stories (Penguin Classics) by Isaac Babel
Buy used from: $0.99 "Red Cavalry" Stories are a gem.
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