 | The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £5.43 The greatest book ever written...ever! (In my Humble opinion) A good Macduff translation as well that really works magic on the peerless 'Grand Inquisitor' section.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £0.01 Apparently one of the most frequently unfinished novels of all (the middle bit is a bit dry...) Worth it for the ending though...
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 | The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.54 "We have all emerged from under Gogol's overcoat" - Dostoyevsky. Indeed, but pity they ignored the humour & satire in the stories!
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 | Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.32 Not as rich as it promises to be & ends far too soon, but worth it for chapter 6 of the first book...
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 | War and Peace: v. 1 by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £45.00 / Used from: £40.00 A noted classic but on audio CD, so that it saves straining the eyes!
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 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.03 A masterpiece of satire that translates well. Definitely worth reading, with a brilliant title for the bibliophiliac in you (lots of people will ask you 'what's it about?')
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 | The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky
Buy new: £10.31 / Used from: £2.42 Where else in the world could Rasputin have come from? One of the most insightful books I've read on the subject, with gambits that are not as yet on t'internet...
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 | What is to be Done? (Twentieth Century Classics) by V.I. Lenin
Buy used from: £10.50 Far better than the 'Communist Manifesto', due to its economy of language. Conveys his charismatic persona convincingly enough to see how he came to power...
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 | Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-36 (Annals of Communism) by J Stalin
Buy new: £12.71 / Used from: £6.41 One of the most insightful books about the mind of the tyrant. He was evil, but was he understandable?
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 A simple, yet powerful book hopefully condemning such brutality to the history books...
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