The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
ISBN-10: 0140151036
ISBN-13: 9780140151039
$20.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Aug 1, 1993
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.70x5.00x1.70 Inches
Weight
1.16 Pounds
About the Book
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.