It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays: Introduction, The Wedding, The Jubilee, A Merry Death, The Beautiful Despot, The Choice of a Tutor, The Inspector General, Savva, The Life of Man, Short Stories, The Queen of Spades, The Cloak, The District Doctor, The Christmas Tree And The Wedding, God Sees The Truth, But Waits, How A Muzhik Fed, Two Officials, The Shades, A Phantasy, The Signal, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, Hide And Seek, Dethroned, The Servant, One Autumn Night, Her Lover Lazarus, The Revolutionist, The Outrage, An Honest Thief, A Novel in Nine Letters, An Unpleasant Predicament, Another Man's Wife, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey, The Crocodile Bobok, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu, The Shot, St. John'S Eve, An Old Acquaintance, The Mantle, The Nose, Memoirs Of A Madman, A May Night, The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock, The Inn, Lieutenant Yergunov's Story, The Dog, The Watch, Essay on Russian Novelists, Lectures on Russian Novelists
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An All Time Favorite Collection from the Renowned Russian dramatists and Writers (Including Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists) Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, ...
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture.
Collects critical essays discussing Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorki, and the nature of philistinism.
Forever united, forever parted, they flashed like sparks, and like sparks went out in boundless darkness. Lazarus came to a proud sage, and the sage said to him: "I already know all the horrors that you may tell me, Lazarus.
Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Overcoat," "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Gorky, and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Tolstoy, plus works by Gogol, Turgenev, more.
Best Russian Short Stories Edited by Thomas Seltzer.
F. Jude) The propagator of Pan-Slavism, Tiutchev, a diplomat who also happened to be one of Russia's greatest lyric ... come in the late 18705 in answer to the national union of the “Germanic world” and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877—8.
Russia Discovered: Nineteenth-century Fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov