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This anthology of faithful translations of the classics is by far the best of its kind to come out for a long time." -Canadian Slavic Review
List of contents
PREFACE
Practical Criticism for Students / Carl R. Proffer
Nikolai Karamzin / Poor Liza
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Alexander Pushkin / The Station Master
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Alexander Pushkin / The Queen of Spades
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Nikolai Gogol / The Overcoat
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Ivan Turgenev / Bezhin Meadow
Translated by Thomas Moore
Nikolai Leskov / Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Translated by George Hanna
Fyodor Dostoevsky / The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Translated by Olga Shartse
Leo Tolstoy / God Sees the Truth, but Waits
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilych
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Vsevolod Garshin / The Red Flower
Translated by Bernard Isaacs
Vladimir Korolenko / Makar's Dream
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Anton Chekhov / Heartache
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Anton Checkhove / Gooseberries
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Anton Chekhov / Anna on the Neck
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Anton Chekhov / The Darling
Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Maxim Gorky / Chelkash
Translated by Margaret Wettlin
Alexander Kuprin / The Garnet Bracelet
Translated by Stepan Apresyan
Ivan Bunin / The Gentleman from San Francisco
Translated by Olga Shartse
About the author
edited by Carl R. Proffer
Summary
Provides a broad selection of writing from Nikolai Karamzin and the beginnings of modern Russian prose to Ivan Bunin and the years just before the Revolution
