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Terrific resource at a great price
this is one of a series of dual language editions of Russian classics published in an inexpensive format by Mr. Vassiliev. The coöridination of the Russian and English translation is well done, and the text is very readable. The translations preserve the constructions of the original within the bounds of idiomatic English. If you have learned Russian as a reading language, the dual language format can be an excellent way to build your skills without constant recourse to a dictionary. I hope that the editor/publisher will continue this excellent series, and I am glad to see that he has already released volumes of Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Lermontov. Given the quality of this volume, I will not hesitate to purchase the rest of the series. I would love to see part one of Dead Souls in this format, if I may add my two cents.PS, for anyone interested in reading the Russian classics, be sure to check out the excellent site conradish.net, which features full texts with every word linked to a dictionary entry.
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The Easy Way to Fluency
This dual-language book, part of an ever-growing series put out by Alexander Vassiliev, is a wonderful way to improve your comprehension of written Russian. The book contains two stories by Tolstoy: "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". The original Russian is on the left side of each page spread and the English translation is on the right, both correspond exactly. The English translation is very well done, but, of course, it's the Russian that matters most.Reading something, anything, that interests you, whether it's a novel, short story or newspaper article is by far the best way to improve your language comprehension. If you're interested in what you're reading, you learn more and retain more; it's the easy way to fluency. You get to see not just the words but the sentence structure and the way ideas and actions are expressed in the target language.This book fits the bill perfectly. Two great stories by one of Russia's greatest authors! I'm pleased to see that Vassiliev has branched out into Dostoevsky as well, his books are the route to fluency in reading Russian! Vassiliev has tackled Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Gogol, all of them wonderful authors, but a dual-language book of this type containing works by Yevgeny Zamyatin would, in my opinion, be worth its weight in gold!Two final points:1.) The stress accents on the Russian are not given, some people consider this important, others think it less important.2.) An excellent online grammatical dictionary can be found here: russian.dmll.cornell.edu/rdt/ It can help you quite a bit in determining the various connotations of Russian words encountered in this and other books.
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