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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Clarence Brown Klappentext 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 Petersburg , Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita , Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago , and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools ; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy ; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Petersburg ! Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ! Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago ! and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools ; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy ; and poetry by Alexander Blok! Anna Akhmatova! and Osip Mandelstam. For more than seventy years! Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1!700 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian ReaderIntroduction by Clarence Brown Leo Tolstoy Alyosha the Pot ( Clarence Brown ) Anton Chekhov The Bishop ( Marion Fell ) Maxim Gorky Recollections of Leo Tolstoy ( Clarence Brown ) Ivan Bunin Light Breathing ( Clarence Brown ) Nadezhda Teffi Time ( Edythe C. Haber ) Alexander Blok A Girl Was Singing The Stranger (both by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France ) Andrei Bely From Petersburg ( Robert A. Maguire and John E. Malmstad ) Evgeni Zamyatin The Cave ( Avrahm Yarmolinsky ) Velimir Khlebnikov Nikolai ( Clarence Brown ) Anna Akhmatova Three things in this world he loved We're no good at saying good-bye Dante When a man dies Courage ( all by Clarence Brown ) Andrei Platonov The Potudan River ( Joseph Barnes ) Boris Pasternak Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago ) Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago ) March (from Dr. Zhivago ) ( Max Hayward and Manya Harari ) Osip Mandelstam Theodosia ( Clarence Brown ) The Admiralty The thread of gold cordial flowed Leningrad O Lord, help me to live through this night The Last Supper (all except "Theodosia" by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin ) Mikhail Bulgakov From The Master and Margarita ( Michael Glenny ) Isaac Babel My First Goose ( Andrew R. MacAndrew ) How it Was Done in Odessa ( Andrew R. MacAndrew ) My First Fee ( Max Hayward ) Mikhail Zoshchenko Bees and People From Before Sunrise...
