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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.
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- ISBN 9780140151039
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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.
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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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Is The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Portable Library
Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader?
George Gibian,Various
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader is available as paperback(ISBN 9780140151039)
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