The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

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Paperback | 1 August 1993 | Edition Number 1

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