Book Quote by Melissa Jensen

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which I found…

— Catherine the Great

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“Among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same. Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable…

— Vasily Grossman

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“And then what happens to all of us every day happened to him—he fell asleep without knowing himself when or how. He passed from…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Book 1: CRIME ON THE FENS”

— Joy Ellis

“And then—the languid hands dropped the uncut book. War, revolution, an absurd marriage, being chosen as the “dictator of his home town,” putting his…

— Teffi

“We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was…

— Stephen Fry