| Description |
xviii, 599 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking portable library |
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Viking portable library.
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| Contents |
Alyosha the pot / Leo Tolstoy -- The bishop / Anton Chekhov -- Recollection\s 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 (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 live through this night ; The last supper / Osip Mandelstam -- My first goose / Isaac Babel ; How it was done in Odessa / 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 (from Hope against hope) ; Last letter (from Hope abandoned) / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- Anecdotes about Pushkin's life ; The connection / Danil Kharms -- Prosthetic appliances (from Kolyma tales) ; A child's drawings (from Kolyma tales) ; Lend-Lease (from Kolyma tales) / Varlam Shalamov -- Matryona's homes / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Pkhentz / Andrei Sinyavksy -- Adam and Eve / Yuri 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 |
0670805319 |
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