Product Description: 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...read more

Poems celebrate the beauties of women, art, and the poet's Czech homeland

Product Description: 1997 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Paperback cover has repaired corners and bumps on the spine; text does have some underlining and highlighting which does not affect readability; binding is tight; page edges have some soiling. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition. New footnotes have been added, based on discoveries by the leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar, Sergei Belov. "Backgrounds and Sources", highly praised in the Second Edition, remains unaltered...read more

Product Description: Book by Gibian, George

A lyrical anthology of poetry by the 1984 Nobel Prize winner presents English translations of poems distinguished by their luminous clarity, directness, unpretentious simplicity, and irony and includes selected passages from Seifert's memoirs

Product Description: “The Russian literary heritage of the 1920’s and 1930’s continues to grow as significant works are uncovered that were long forgotten or never published. The most recent find is not a single work or author, but an entire literary movement―the Oberiu...read more