About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 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. Part 2 Aleksandr Griboyedov: the trouble with reason, Frank R. Reeve. Part 3 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 and Dmitri Nabokov. Part 4 Nikolay Gogol: the overcoat, Bernard Guilbert Guerney; Easter Sunday, George Gibian; in praise of Russian peasants, 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 Gogol and Grigoryev, George Gibian; Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev, George Gibian. Part 5 Sergey Aksakov: Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov, M.C. Beverley. Part 6 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. Part 7 Karolina Pavlova: from "A Double Life"; strange, the way we met, both by Barbara Heldt. Part 8 Ivan Goncharov: Oblomov's dream, David Magarshack. Part 9 Ivan Turgenev: first love, Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, revised by George Gibian; on Belinsky, David Magarshack; on the Russian language, George Gibian. Part 10 Aleksandr Herzen: recollections of Russian intellectuals - 1830s and 1860s, Leo Navrozov. Part 11 Russian folk proverbs: George Gibian. Part 12 Kozma Prutkov: the fruits of reflection - thoughts and aphorisms, George Gibian; a memory of bygone days, Barbara Heldt. Part 13 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: the grand inquisitor, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; on the mission of Russia, George Gibian; on Russian distinctiveness and universality, George Gibian. Part 14 Leo Tolstoy: the death of Ivan Ilych, Aylmer Maude; master and man, S. Rapoport and John C. Kenworthy; how literature teaches us about moral and psychological life, George Gibian. Part 15 Anton Chekhov: the lady with the dog, Ivy Litvinov; Uncle Vanya, David Magarshack; Part 16 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: the story of how one Russian peasant fed two Russian generals, George Gibian. Part 17 Maksim Gorky: twenty-six men and one girl, Bernard Isaacs. Gibian. Part 18 Vladimir Solovyov: lectures on godmanhood, George L. Kline.
