| Description |
xxii, 641 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking portable library |
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Viking portable library.
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| Note |
"A Penguin original"--Label on cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-641). |
| Contents |
Introduction / George Gibian -- Seclusion (Walter Arndt) Epigram on A.A. Davydova (Walter Arndt) Winter evening (Vladimir Nabokov) To ... (Walter Arndt) Arion (Walter Arndt) Rememberance (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) / Aleksandr Pushkin -- The trouble wit Reason (Frank R. Reeve) / Aleksandr Griboyedov -- 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 with Dmitir Nabokov) / Mikhail Lermontiv -- The Overcoat (Bernard Guilbert Guerney) Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages) (George Gibian) In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls, vol. 2) (Jesse Zeldin) 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 Kniazhin, on Grigoryev (George Gibian) / Nikolay Gogol -- Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle) (M.C. Beverley) -- Tears Summer Nightfall Appeasement Silentium! The Abyss Human Tears Last Love all by Vladimir Nabkov) Is russia Distinct from the West? (George Gibian) / Fyodor Tyutchev -- From A Double Life Strange, the Way We Met (both by Barbara Heldth) / Karolina Pavlova -- Oblomov's Dream (David Magarshack) / Ivan Goncharov. 505 0 First Love (Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, revised by George Gibian) On Belinsky (David Magarshak) On the Russian Language (George Gibian) / Ivan Turgenev -- Recollections of Russian Intellectuals--1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts) (Leo Navrozov) -- Russian Folk Proverbs (George Gibian) -- The Fruits of Reflection : Thoughts and Aphorisms (George Gibian) A Memory of Bygone Days (Barbara Heldt) / Koznma Prutkov -- -- The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) On the Mission of Russia (George Gibian) On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality (from a speech on Pushkin) (George Gibian) / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Death of Ivan Ilych (Alymer Maude) Master and Man (S. Rapoport and John C. Kenworthy, revised by George Gibian) How Literature Teaches Us about Moral and Psychological Life (George Gibian) / Leo Tolstoy -- The Lady with the Dog (Ivy Litinov) Uncle Vanya (David Magarshack) / Anton Chekhov -- The Story of How One Russian Peasant Fed Two Fussian Generals (George Gibian) / Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin -- Twenty-Six Men and One Girl (Bernard Isaacs, revised by George Gibian) / Maksim Gorky -- Lectures on Godmanhood (George Gibian) / Vladimir Solovyov. |
| Summary |
Collects writings by Aleksandr Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and other notable nineteenth-century Russian writers. |
| Language |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- Translations into English.
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Russian literature. (OCoLC)fst01102312
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Gibian, George.
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| Added Title |
Portable 19th century Russian reader.
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Nineteenth-century Russian reader.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Portable nineteenth-century Russian reader. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1993 (OCoLC)624440676 |
| ISBN |
0140151036 (pbk.) |
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9780140151039 (pbk.) |
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