The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library) - Softcover

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9780140151039: The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library)
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ISBN 10: 0140151036 ISBN 13: 9780140151039
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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[ The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader By ( Author ) Aug-1993 Paperback

Synopsis

An anthology of 19th-century Russian literature containing extracts of poetry, prose and drama including lyric poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev; short stories by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; and passages from Herzen's memoirs and Chekhov's plays.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0140151036
ISBN 13 
9780140151039
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
672
Editor
Gibian George

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