Russia and Eastern European Wonders

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Crime and Punishment (Classics)
1.  Crime and Punishment (Classics) by F. M. Dostoevsky
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  "The finest novel ever written? And cheap too!"
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The Question of Bruno
2.  The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
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  "A collection of short stories that work well togeather to portray the loss of friends and a country tearing itself to pieces."
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The Engineer Of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death (Vintage Classics)
3.  The Engineer Of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death (Vintage Classics) by Josef Skvorecky
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  "I spent ages trying to find this book, and then found it at a book fair at Keele University. By one of the most underrated of the Czech post-1968 writers."
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The Master and Margarita
4.  The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "A great allegory, and a great story too, by maybe the best Russian writer of his period. Of a number of translations this is the best one."
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The Land of Green Plums
5.  The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
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  "Perhaps the most 'perfect' book I have read. It takes a while to get into but then... Wow, stunning, the end is so perfect it completes the book in an amazing way."
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The Fictions (Picador Books)
6.  The Fictions (Picador Books) by Bruno Schulz
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  "Stunning."
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Fathers and Sons
7.  Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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  "A good Russian novel, that illustrates the forces of youth against the forces of the old."
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
8.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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  "Playful at times, serious at other times and always stunning."
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Gulag Archipelago, The (Harvill Press Editions)
9.  Gulag Archipelago, The (Harvill Press Editions) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
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  "One of the most humane books ever written. It should be read by everyone."
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Death And The Penguin (Panther)
10.  Death And The Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
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  "An amusing story, with a deep dark undercurrent."
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The White Guard
11.  The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Another brilliant book by Bulgakov, totally different in style and substance to 'The Master and Margarita'. So good it inspired me to start playing Guitar!"
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Embers
12.  Embers by Sandor Marai
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  "A recent rediscovery, very very good, it'll be interesting to see if his other works are up to this standard."
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics)
13.  The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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  "A fun, funny book, which does go on too long, but always raises a smile along the way."
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
14.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
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  "Another of Kunderas' masterpieces. It reminded me of the importance of history, of remembering."
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We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
15.  We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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  "The inspiration for the first part of Orwells' '1984'. Good, though probably not as good as '1984'."
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Darkness at Noon
16.  Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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  "The inspiration for the second part of Orwells' '1984'. Great, though probably not as good as '1984'."
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Russian (Teach Yourself)
17.  Russian (Teach Yourself) by Daphne M. West
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  "Well I tried and I'm still trying, I just want to read 'The Master and Margarita' as Bulgakov wrote it."
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