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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
John Keegan
After years in South Africa, Richard
Hannay has just returned to life in
England and is thoroughly bored…until
a murder is committed in his flat. An
obvious suspect for the police and an easy
target for the killers, Hannay goes on the
run in his native Scotland where he will
need all his courage and ingenuity to stay
one step ahead of his pursuers.
128 pp. 978-0-14-144117-7 $10.00
georg büChner
1813 – 1837, Hessian
Complete Plays, Lenz,
and Other Writings
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by John Reddick
Collected in this volume are powerful
dramas and psychological fiction by
the nineteenth-century iconoclast now
recognized as a major figure of world
literature. Also included are selections
from Büchner’s letters and philosophical
writings.
368 pp. 978-0-14-044586-2 $15.00
Mikhail bulgakov
1891 – 1940, Russian
A Dead Man’s Memoir
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Introduction by Keith Gessen
Best known for The Master and Margarita,
Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentiethcentury
Russia’s most prominent
novelists. A semi-autobiographical story
about a writer and his attempts at literary
success, A Dead Man’s Memoir is one of
the most popular satires on the Russian
Revolution and Soviet society.
208 pp. 978-0-14-045514-4 $14.00
Mikhail bulgakov
Described as “a slanderer of Soviet reality,” in the official Big Soviet Encyclopaedia,
Mikhail Bulgakov graduated with honors as a doctor from Kiev University in
1916, but only three years later gave up his medical practice to pursue writing.
His satirical treatment of government officials in his many plays and stories led to
growing political censorship and criticism, which became violent toward the end of
his career. Poverty-stricken and in despair, Bulgakov wrote a letter to Stalin begging
the government to order him out of the country as “there is no hope for any of my
works” in Russia. Instead, Bulgakov was granted his second choice, a position as
the assistant director and literary consultant to the Moscow Arts Theater, where he
could be closely monitored by government officials. Bulgakov died in disgrace at
the age of 49.
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