Russian Stories

<p>The story or novella as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories -- memorable tales by Tolstoy Dostoevsky Pushkin Chekhov Gogol Turgenev Bunin and other masters. Each selection is presented here in the original Russian with an excellent literal English translation on the facing pages.<br>Also included are linguistic and cultural notes a Russian-English vocabulary study questions and more. In addition Professor Struve has supplied an enlightening introduction to the Russian short story as well as concise biographical/critical introductions to each selection. An especially helpful feature for students of Russian is the presence of stress accents in the Russian text a feature usually found only in primers.</p><p></p>