Lectures on Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0156027763
- ISBN-13
- 9780156027762
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 385
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Author
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Description
Collects critical essays discussing Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorki, and the nature of philistinism.
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