The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader
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The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader
(The Viking portable library)
Penguin, 1993
Rev. and updated ed
- : pbk
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Portable 20th century Russian reader
Twentieth-century Russian reader
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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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