The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

<b>The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader</b> 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.