Authors: Various, George Gibian
ISBN-13: 9780140151039, ISBN-10: 0140151036
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Introduction | ||
Chronology | ||
Seclusion | 4 | |
Epigram on A. A. Davydova | 4 | |
Winter Evening | 5 | |
To... | 6 | |
Arion | 6 | |
Remembrance | 7 | |
The dreary day is spent | 7 | |
I loved you | 8 | |
The Bronze Horseman | 8 | |
Exegi Monumentum | 21 | |
The Shot | 22 | |
The Trouble with Reason | 35 | |
My Native Land | 131 | |
Farewell | 132 | |
From the Author's Introduction to A Hero of Our Time | 132 | |
Preface to Pechorin's Diary | 133 | |
Princess Mary | 133 | |
The Overcoat | 202 | |
Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages) | 232 | |
In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls, vol. 2) | 236 | |
On the Character of the Russians | 237 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol | 237 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol | 239 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Aleksandr Blok, on Gogol and Grigoryev | 240 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev | 240 | |
Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle) | 242 | |
Tears | 276 | |
Summer Nightfall | 277 | |
Appeasement | 277 | |
Silentium! | 278 | |
The Abyss | 278 | |
Human Tears | 279 | |
Last Love | 279 | |
Is Russia Distinct from the West? | 280 | |
From A Double Life | 282 | |
Strange, the Way We Met | 291 | |
Oblomov's Dream | 295 | |
First Love | 336 | |
On Belinsky | 390 | |
On the Russian Language | 391 | |
Recollections of Russian Intellectuals - 1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts) | 393 | |
401 | ||
The Fruits of Reflection: Thoughts and Aphorisms | 406 | |
A Memory of Bygone Days | 409 | |
The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov) | 413 | |
On the Mission of Russia | 433 | |
On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality (from a speech on Pushkin) | 433 | |
The Death of Ivan Ilych | 440 | |
Master and Man | 489 | |
How Literature Teaches Us about Moral and Psychological Life | 529 | |
The Lady with the Dog | 534 | |
Uncle Vanya | 549 | |
The Story of How One Russian Peasant Fed Two Russian Generals | 609 | |
Twenty-Six Men and One Girl | 618 | |
Lectures on Godmanhood | 631 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 639 |