Combining history and biography, The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s–1920). The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and a...

Alice thought she had escaped mortal danger when Shaman hid her and her faithful dogs in the Underworld, within the Sanctuary — a secret tribal settlement hidden deep beneath the mountains.But the Underworld is far larger and far more dangerous than Alice could have imagined.Beneath the forests and lakes stretches a vast subterranean realm of enormous caves, dark tunnels, underground waterways, and abandoned cities built long ago by the mysterious Miners — a vanished people...

Alice, Cricket and Two Dogsby Serge GregoryNine-year-old Alice lives a quiet life with her father, her stepmother Annie, and two loyal dogs—Bella and Lola. But when a terrible secret emerges, everythingchanges: Annie is a witch, and Alice is in danger.Warned by Cricket, a brilliant, talking insect born from a cosmic event, Alice flees into the wilderness with the dogs as her only protectors....

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction a...