| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 615 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| 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 Khlebenikov. -- Three things in this world he loved ; We're no good at saying good-bye ; Dante ; When a man dies ; Courage / Anna Akhamatova. -- The Potudan River / Andrei Platonov. -- Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago) ; Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago) ; March (from Dr. Zhivago) / 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 was it don in Odessa ; My first fee / Isaac Babel. -- Bees and people ; from Before sunrise / Mikhail Zoschenko. -- Envy / Yuri Olesha. -- The return of Chorb ; The visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov. -- A May night (from Hope against hope) ; Last letter (from Hope abandoned) / Nadezhda Mandelstam. -- Anecdotes about Pushkin's life ; The connection / Daniil Kharms. -- Prosthetic appliances (from Kolyma tales ) ; A child's drawings (from Kolyma tales ) ; Lend-lease (from Kolyma tales ) / Varlam Shalamov. -- Matryona's home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn. -- Pkhentz / Andrei Sinyavsky. -- Adam and Eve / Yuro Kazakov. -- from Faithful Ruslan / Georgi Vladimov. -- A circle of friends / Vladimir Voinovich. -- from A school for fools / Sasha Sokolov. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Clarence, 1929-2015
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| Added Title |
Portable 20th-century Russian reader |
| ISBN |
0142437573 paperback |
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9780142437575 paperback |
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0140151079 paperback |
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9780140151077 paperback |
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