The portable nineteenth-century Russian reader
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The portable nineteenth-century Russian reader
（The Viking portable library）
Penguin Books, 1993
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"A Penguin original"--Label on cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-641)
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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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Aleksandr Pushkin: seclusion, Walter Arndt
- epigram on A.A. Davydova, Walter Arndt
- winter evening, Vladimir Nabokov
- to..., Walter Arndt
- Arion, Walter Arndt
- remembrance, Walter Arndt
- the dreary day is spent, Walter Arndt
- I loved you, Walter Arndt
- the bronze horseman, Walter Arndt
- exegi monumentum, Vladimir Nabokov
- the shot, Gillon R. Aitken. Part 2 Aleksandr Griboyedov: the trouble with reason, Frank R. Reeve. Part 3 Mikhail Lermontov: my native land, Vladimir Nabokov
- farewell, Vladimir Nabokov
- from the author's introduction to a hero of our time, George Gibian
- preface to Pechorin's Diary, George Gibian
- Princess Mary, Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov. Part 4 Nikolay Gogol: the overcoat, Bernard Guilbert Guerney
- Easter Sunday, George Gibian
- in praise of Russian peasants, Jesse Zeldin
- on the character of the Russians, George Gibian
- the controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages - Vissarion Belinsky, letter to Gogol, George Gibian
- Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol, George Gibian
- Aleksandr Blok, on Gogol and Grigoryev, George Gibian
- Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev, George Gibian. Part 5 Sergey Aksakov: Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov, M.C. Beverley. Part 6 Fyodor Tyutchev: tears
- summer nightfall
- appeasement
- silentium!
- the abyss
- human tears
- last love, all by Vladimir Nabokov
- is Russia distinct from the West?, George Gibian. Part 7 Karolina Pavlova: from "A Double Life"
- strange, the way we met, both by Barbara Heldt. Part 8 Ivan Goncharov: Oblomov's dream, David Magarshack. Part 9 Ivan Turgenev: first love, Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, revised by George Gibian
- on Belinsky, David Magarshack
- on the Russian language, George Gibian. Part 10 Aleksandr Herzen: recollections of Russian intellectuals - 1830s and 1860s, Leo Navrozov. Part 11 Russian folk proverbs: George Gibian. Part 12 Kozma Prutkov: the fruits of reflection - thoughts and aphorisms, George Gibian
- a memory of bygone days, Barbara Heldt. Part 13 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: the grand inquisitor, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- on the mission of Russia, George Gibian
- on Russian distinctiveness and universality, George Gibian. Part 14 Leo Tolstoy: the death of Ivan Ilych, Aylmer Maude
- master and man, S. Rapoport and John C. Kenworthy
- how literature teaches us about moral and psychological life, George Gibian. Part 15 Anton Chekhov: the lady with the dog, Ivy Litvinov
- Uncle Vanya, David Magarshack
- Part 16 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: the story of how one Russian peasant fed two Russian generals, George Gibian. Part 17 Maksim Gorky: twenty-six men and one girl, Bernard Isaacs. Gibian. Part 18 Vladimir Solovyov: lectures on godmanhood, George L. Kline.
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