The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library)
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Editor: George GibianEdition: Paperback
Audio: Russian (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-08-01
ISBN: 0140151036
Number of pages: 672
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: One of the great periods of world literature- anthologized
Summary: 5 Stars
Nineteenth century Russia Literature is one of the great Literatures of Mankind. Consider 'War and Peace' and 'Karamozov' Tolstoy and Dostoevsky alone, two of the giants. But also in that century Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Chekhov other very major writers.
In this anthology there are also included Herzen,Solovoyev, Saltykov- Schedrin, Griboyedov, Goncharov, Tyutchev, and others.
The Tolstoy is 'Ivan Ilyich' and the Dostoevsky 'The Grand Inquisitor' .
There are clearly written introductions to each of the works.
This a an overabundantly rich anthology,an overabundance and richness which reflects the character of nineteenth century Russian Literature as a whole.
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