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One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake / En Kvall I Oktober Rodde Jag Ut Pa Sjon

By Tua Forsstrom and David McDuff (trans)

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9781780371146 | Bilingual edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, March 29, 2015), cover price $26.00

Tarkovsky's Horses and Other Poems

Product Description: Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in 2001. This new translation of her work combines two more recent collections, The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses...read more

By David McDuff (trans)

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9781852248376 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2010, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in 2001.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Product Description: Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought...read more

By David McDuff (trans)

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9781439576281 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought.

The Cossacks and Other Stories

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, 'The Cossacks' describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people.

By Paul Foote (trans), David McDuff (trans) and Leo Tolstoy

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9780140449594 | Penguin Classics, May 29, 2007, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier.

Dark Paradise

Product Description: A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents--but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow-covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged...read more

By Rosa Liksom and David McDuff (trans)

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9781564784377 | Italian edition edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, February 28, 2007), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents--but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible.

I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty

A trilogy comprising 'Snow Leopard' (1987), 'The Parks' (1992), and 'After Spending a Night Among Horses' (1997), coupled with a cycle of poems, 'Minerals.' This poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world.

By Stina Katchadourian and David McDuff

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9781852246495 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A trilogy comprising 'Snow Leopard' (1987), 'The Parks' (1992), and 'After Spending a Night Among Horses' (1997), coupled with a cycle of poems, 'Minerals.

The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff (trans)

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9780140449242 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, May 1, 2003), cover price $17.00

Queen's Gate

Product Description: In 1999, Queen's Gate, Pia Tafdrup's ninth book, won Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award, the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Now available in English in a lovely rendition by David McDuff, English language readers can experience this outstanding poet's celebrated collection...read more

By David McDuff (trans) and Pia Tafdrup

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9781852245672 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1999, Queen's Gate, Pia Tafdrup's ninth book, won Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award, the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Rudin: On the Eve

Product Description: In Rudin (1855) and On The Eve (1859), Turgenev portrays through tales of passionate, problematic love the conflicts of cultural loyalty and national identity at the heart of nineteenth century Russia. Both novels reflect Turgenev's concern with the failings of Russia's educated class, the only class he believed was capable of building a civilized and humane Russia based on the principles of European enlightenment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David McDuff (trans) and Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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9780192833334 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In Rudin (1855) and On The Eve (1859), Turgenev portrays through tales of passionate, problematic love the conflicts of cultural loyalty and national identity at the heart of nineteenth century Russia.

Axel

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By Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan and David McDuff (trans)

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9780810116177 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $36.00

Trolls' Cathedral

By Jill Burrows (trans), Olafur Gunnarsson and David McDuff (trans)

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9781899197309 | Findhorn Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.95

Urwind

A tale of experience, past and present. In the 'ur-vind', or primordial attic, are stored not only relics from the story-teller's past, but also memories of those who inhabited the house where he was brought up. The 'ur-vind' is also the cosmic wind, and the story-teller's name - Daniel Urwind.

By Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan and David McDuff (trans)

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9780810116184 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $33.00

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9781857542509 | Carcanet Pr, November 21, 1996, cover price $21.20 | About this edition: A tale of experience, past and present.

The Gentle Spirit

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff

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9780146001680 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1996, cover price $0.95

Petersburg: A Novel in Eight Chapters : With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Product Description: A new translation of Bely's colourful evocation of Russia's capital over a short, turbulent period in 1905. History, culture and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg society.

By Andrei Bely and David McDuff (trans)

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9780140186963 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new translation of Bely's colourful evocation of Russia's capital over a short, turbulent period in 1905.

Complete Poems

By Karin Boye and David McDuff (trans)

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9781852241094 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, February 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

Selected Writings

Product Description: This edition includes selections from Tuominen's poetry and stories, as well as her seminal essay Victim and Tormentor. It is introduced by her daughter, the writer Tuva KorsstrÃ¶m, literary editor of the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet.

By Tuva Korsstrom (introduced by), David McDuff (trans) and Mirjam Tuominen

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9781852242183 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, September 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This edition includes selections from Tuominen's poetry and stories, as well as her seminal essay Victim and Tormentor.

Brushstrokes of Blue: The Young Poets of Iceland

By Sigfus Bjartmarsson, David McDuff (trans) and Pal Valsson (editor)

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9781899197002 | Mare''s Nest Pub, December 15, 1994, cover price $16.95

Dance With a Shadow

By David McDuff (trans) and Irina Ratushinskaya

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9781852242329 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, July 1, 1994, cover price $29.00

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9781852242336 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, January 1, 1994, cover price $16.95

Homecoming

Product Description: "Homecoming" includes in their entirety three collections of Bo Carpelan's poems which represent the achievement maturity of one of Finland's greatest poets, whose collection of verse appeared in 1946. "The Cool Day" (1961), "The Courtyard" (1969) and "Years Like Leaves" (1989) are combined in "Homecoming", translated by David McDuff, who also translated Carpelan's classic novel "Axel" (Carcanet, 1989; Paladin, 1990)...read more

By David McDuff (trans)

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9780856359965 | Carcanet Pr, January 21, 1993, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: "Homecoming" includes in their entirety three collections of Bo Carpelan's poems which represent the achievement maturity of one of Finland's greatest poets, whose collection of verse appeared in 1946.

Tom Reber's Last Retreat

Tom Rebers, the survivor of a German concentration camp during World War II, finds the failure of his shipping business all the more depressing, because of the success of Henry Hagen, a self-made man suspected of dealing with the Nazis during the war

By Oystein Lonn and David McDuff (trans)

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9780714529332 | Marion Boyars, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Tom Rebers, the survivor of a German concentration camp during World War II, finds the failure of his shipping business all the more depressing, because of the success of Henry Hagen, a self-made man suspected of dealing with the Nazis during the war

Snow Leopard

Product Description: A collection of this much acclaimed poet whose work has been praised by Claes Andersson: Her language has a musicality, a quiet thoroughness and a lustre, as in an adagietto by Mahler. She belongs to a tradition that includes Rilke, HÃ¶lderlin, Paul Celan and the great Swedish poet Gunnar EkelÃ¶f...read more

By Tua Forsstrom and David McDuff (trans)

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9781852241117 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of this much acclaimed poet whose work has been praised by Claes Andersson: Her language has a musicality, a quiet thoroughness and a lustre, as in an adagietto by Mahler.

Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry

By David McDuff (trans)

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9781852240110 | Dufour Editions, September 1, 1989, cover price $19.95

Poor Folk and Other Stories

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By Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff (trans)

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9780140445053 | Penguin Classics, March 1, 1989, cover price $14.00

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