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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book for anybody who has any interest in Russian, at any level; I currently attend Russian night classes at college and find the book extremely interesting and a great read and I can see this book becoming more and more useful and enlightening when I go on to study Beginners' Russian at university. The layout is brilliantly thought out, with a great selection of classic Russian tales, the wonderful addition of concise biographies for each author and the only improvement would be to print it in hardback, in which case it would be sure to be a best seller!
60 of 63 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ive been studying russian for 5 years and this is the best book ive ever learnt from to date. On the left hand page you have the russian and on the right you have the english translation which is perfectly lined up with the russian which allows unknown words and forms to be easily and quickly known, meaning there is no longer any refering to a time consuming and frustrating dictionary. The translations are good and the stories are taken from Russia's most famous writers (Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Sologub, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel and Zoshchenko) and because of this taking the time to read the russian is worthwhile and rewarding as you feel you are reading something of value. The Russian is hard in places and varies depending on the author. It is probably best for university level students who have a good basic understanding of russian (intermediate) through to highly proficient/fluent speakers. The book enables you to understand how the language is constructed and stress marks have been added (essential if you want to pronounce the words correctly, otherwise russians will find it hard to understand you) to the russian text, and it is this that makes the book so usefull and productive as I find russian is rarely written with word stress marks. This book will broaden your vacabulary, improve your understanding of grammar and noticably improve and quicken your reading skills. It also contains info about each author and has vocab list at the end of the book. I paid 13 pounds for this to help me maintain my russian over the summer break from university and feel that it has far surpased this task and has indeed become a source of inspiratin and improvement. Highly recomended to all those of you that want to get to grip with this mammoth of a language.
50 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are sort of good at Russian but feel you have a long way to go, this is a painless way to study. The stories are interesting, and the immediate translations are great. Russian is a tough language! This book lets you read Russian as people speak it, which is better than drill and practice exercizes. I wish I still had my copy, but I left it in Moscow for my translator. It is also good for learning English if you are a native Russian speaker.
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A book which not only is pedagogically superb, but one who also gives a rare opportunity to get an understanding for the culture behind the language. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Anders Kr. T.
List of stories
Great book, as others here have mentioned. Thought I would provide a list of the stories in it, as there doesn't appear to be one on this Amazon page... Read more
Published 1 month ago by WiseOrangutan
Russian Stories (Dual-Language Books)
Well Translated from rusian to english, and well done the selection of the tales from these wonderful writers. it makes you feel tempted to buy more plays of each ones.
Published 15 months ago by PablitoBD
Rather good.
Very good book. It tells you the story in Russian, with the English counter-part on the other page, so you can compare what you're reading. Read more
Published on 21 July 2007 by Mr B W B
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