Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov Gorky Bunin Zamyatin Babel Nabokov Solzhenitsyn and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's <i>Petersburg</i> Mikhail Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita</i> Boris Pasternak's <i>Dr. Zhivago</i> and Sasha Solokov's <i>A School for Fools</i>; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece <i>Envy</i>; and poetry by Alexander Blok Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam. <p/>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.