The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader,9780140151039

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

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ISBN13: 9780140151039
ISBN10: 0140151036
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-08-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
George Gibian
Chronology xvii
George Gibian
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
Seclusion
4(1)
Walter Arndt
Epigram on A. A. Davydova
4(1)
Walter Arndt
Winter Evening
5(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
To...
6(1)
Walter Arndt
Arion
6(1)
Walter Arndt
Remembrance
7(1)
Walter Arndt
The dreary day is spent
7(1)
Walter Arndt
I loved you
8(1)
Walter Arndt
The Bronze Horseman
8(13)
Walter Arndt
Exegi Monumentum
21(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
The Shot
22(13)
Gillon R. Aitken
ALEKSANDR GRIBOYEDOV
The Trouble with Reason
35(96)
Frank R. Reeve
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
My Native Land
131(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
Farewell
132(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
From the Author's Introduction to A Hero of Our Time
132(1)
George Gibian
Preface to Pechorin's Diary
133(1)
George Gibian
Princess Mary
133(69)
Vladimir Nabokov
Dmitri Nabokov
NIKOLAY GOGOL
The Overcoat
202(30)
Bernard Guilbert Guerney
Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages)
232(4)
George Gibian
In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls, vol. 2)
236(1)
Jesse Zeldin
On the Character of the Russians
237(1)
George Gibian
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol
237(2)
George Gibian
Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol
239(1)
George Gibian
Aleksandr Blok, on Gogol and Grigoryev
240(1)
George Gibian
Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev
240(2)
George Gibian
SERGEY AKSAKOV
Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle)
242(34)
M. C. Beverley
FYODOR TYUTCHEV
Tears
276(1)
Summer Nightfall
277(1)
Appeasement
277(1)
Silentium!
278(1)
The Abyss
278(1)
Human Tears
279(1)
Last Love (all by Vladimir Nabokov)
279(1)
Is Russia Distinct from the West?
280(2)
George Gibian
KAROLINA PAVLOVA
From A Double Life
282(9)
Strange, the Way We Met
291(4)
Barbara Heldt
IVAN GONCHAROV
Oblomov's Dream
295(41)
David Magarshack
IVAN TURGENEV
First Love
336(54)
Ivy
Tatiana Litvinov
George Gibian
On Belinsky
390(1)
David Magarshack
On the Russian Language
391(2)
George Gibian
ALEKSANDR HERZEN
Recollections of Russian Intellectuals---1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts)
393(8)
Leo Navrozov
RUSSIAN FOLK PROVERBS 401(238)
George Gibian
KOZMA PRUTKOV
The Fruits of Reflection: Thoughts and Aphorisms
406(3)
George Gibian
A Memory of Bygone Days
409(4)
Barbara Heldt
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov)
413(20)
Richard Pevear
Larissa Volokhonsky
On the Mission of Russia
433(1)
George Gibian
On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality (from a speech on Pushkin)
433(7)
George Gibian
LEO TOLSTOY
The Death of Ivan Ilych
440(49)
Aylmer Maude
Master and Man
489(40)
S. Rapoport
John C. Kenworthy
George Gibian
How Literature Teaches Us about Moral and Psychological Life
529(5)
George Gibian
ANTON CHEKHOV
The Lady with the Dog
534(15)
Ivy Litvinov
Uncle Vanya
549(60)
David Magarshack
MIKHAIL SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
The Story of How One Russian Peasant Fed Two Russian Generals
609(9)
George Gibian
MAKSIM GORKY
Twenty-Six Men and One Girl
618(13)
Bernard Isaacs
George Gibian
VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV
Lectures on Godmanhood
631(8)
George L. Kline
Suggestions for Further Reading 639

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