The Portable Twentieth-century Russian Reader
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · July 29, 2003
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- Who it’s for
- Move among Russian writers whose stories, novels, and poems offer distinct ways into a literary century.
- Genres
- Russian & Former Soviet Collections, Russian & Soviet Poetry, Essay Collections
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, July 29, 2003
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Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia.
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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.
Many Russian Voices
Move among Russian writers whose stories, novels, and poems offer distinct ways into a literary century.
Come here for
- A many-voiced introduction to twentieth-century Russian literature
- Stories, novel excerpts, poetry, and a complete novella in one volume
Expect
- A broad mix of forms, from short fiction to poetry
- Familiar names alongside writers you may be meeting for the first time
Where it sits
| Russian & Former Soviet Collections | 99% |
|---|---|
| Russian & Soviet Poetry | 68% |
| Essay Collections | 67% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Russian & Former Soviet Collections
- Russian Lit Crit
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Clarence Brown
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- July 29, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Russian & Former Soviet Collections