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Informationen zum Autor Various Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note: Names of translators are indicated in italicsIntroduction by George Gibian Chronology by George Gibian Aleksandr Pushkin Seclusion (Walter Arndt) Epigram on A. A. Davydova (Walter Arndt) Winter Evening (Vladimir Nabokov) To... (Walter Arndt) Arion (Walter Arndt) Remembrance (Walter Arndt) The dreary day is spent (Walter Arndt) I loved you (Walter Arndt) The Bronze Horseman (Walter Arndt) Exegi Monumentum (Vladimir Nabokov) The Shot (Gillon R. Aitken) Aleksandr Griboyedov The Trouble with Reason (Frank R. Reeve) Mikhail Lermontov My Native Land (Vladimir Nabokov) Farewell (Vladimir Nabokov) From the Author's Introduction to A Hero of Our Time (George Gibian) Preface to Pechorin's Diary (George Gibian) Princess Mary (Vladimir Nabokov with Dmitri Nabokov) Nikolay Gogol The Overcoat (Bernard Guilbert Guerney) Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages ) (George Gibian) In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls , vol. 2) (Jesse Zeldin) On the Character of the Russians (George Gibian) The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages :Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol (George Gibian) Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol (George Gibian) Aleksandr Blok, on Gogl and Grigoryev (George Gibian) Vladmiri Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev (George Gibian) Sergey Aksakov Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle ) (M. C. Beverley) Fyodor Tyutchev Tears Summer Nightfall Appeasement Silentium! The Abyss Human Tears Last Love (all by Vladimir Nabokov) Is Russia Distinct from the West? (George Gibian) Karolina Pavlova From A Double Life Strange, the Way We Met (both by Barbara Heldt) Ivan Goncharov Oblomov's Dream (David Magarshack) Ivan Turgenev First Love (Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, revised by George Gibian) On Belinsky (David Magarshack) On the Russian Language (George Gibian) Aleksandr Herzen Recollections of Russian Intellectuals-1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts ) (Leo Navrozov) Russian Folk Proverbs (George Gibian) Kozma Prutkov The Fruits of Reflection: Thoughts and Aphorisms (Ge...
