The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0140151036 ISBN13: 9780140151039 Release Date: August 1993 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Length: 672 Pages Weight: 1.05 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.0" x 7.7" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher 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.