| The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader Contributor(s): Various (Author), Gibian, George (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140151036 ISBN-13: 9780140151039 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.708 |
| LCCN: 92-39863 |
| Series: Portable Library |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" (1.15 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem The Bronze Horseman; Gogol's The Overcoat; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and The Grand Inquisitor episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography. |