The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library)

by George Gibian (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $30.37

  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.