The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader

Author(s)

• Brown, Clarence

Bibliographic Information

The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader

edited, with an introduction and notes, by Clarence Brown

（The Viking portable library）

Penguin, 1993

Rev. and updated ed

• : pbk

Other Title

Portable 20th century Russian reader

Twentieth-century Russian reader

Note

"A Penguin original" --Label on cover

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This anthology encapsulates the best of 20th-century Russian literature, and is designed as a companion to Professor George Gibian's "The Portable 19th-century Russian Reader". Clarence Brown selects and introduces extracts from the best prose, poetry and drama - from the voices of revolution and war to the anguished voices of dissidence and persecution.

Table of Contents

• "Alyosha the Pot", Leo Tolstoy
• "The Bishop", Anton Chekhov
• "Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", Maxim Gorky
• "Light Breathing", Ivan Bunin
• "Time", Nadezhda Teffi
• "A Girl Was Singing" "The Stranger", Alexander Blok
• from "Petersburg", Andrei Bely
• "The Cave", Evgeni Zamyatin
• "Nikolai", Velimir Khlebnikov
• "Three Things in this World He Loved" "We're No Good at Saying Good-bye" "Dante" "When a Man Dies" "Courage", Anna Akhmatova
• "The Potudan River", Andrei Platonov
• "Varykino" "Hamlet" "March", Boris Pasternak
• "Theodosia" "The Admiralty" "The Thread of Gold Cordial Flowed" "Leningrad" "O Lord, Help Me to Live Through this Night" "The Last Supper", Osip Mandelstam
• from "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov
• "My First Goose" "How It was Done in Odessa" My First Fee", Isaac Babel
• "Bees and People" from "Before Sunrise", Mikhail Zoshchenko
• "Envy", Yuri Olesha
• "The Return of Chorb" "The Visit to the Museum", Vladimir Nabokov
• "A May Night" "Last Letter", Nadezhda Mandelstam
• "Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life" "The Connection", Daniil Kharms
• "Prosthetic Appliances" "A Child's Drawings" "Lend-Lease", Varlam Shalamov
• "Matryona's Home", Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• "Pkhentz", Andrei Sinyavsky
• "Adam and Eve", Yuri Kazakov
• from "Faithful Ruslan", Georgi Vladimov
• "A Circle of Friends", Vladimir Voinovich
• from "A School for Fools", Sasha Sokolov.

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Details

• NCID: BA21998697
• ISBN:
  • 0140151079
• LCCN: 84019113
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 615 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG3213
  • DC19 : 891.7/008/004
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Russian literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : English literature -- Translations from Russian
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03518891