russian literature

A collection of nineteenth-century Russian short stories.

"With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides-Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others-Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country's literary masters"--Jacket flap.

An anthology of Russian writing in the twentieth century. Discusses various writers and poets including Chekhov, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn.

Contains profiles of sixteen novels, each including an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of characters, analysis of themes and style, discussion of historical context, a critical overview, and other related information.

A collection of essays about nineteenth century Russian literature.

Includes 1,000 entries by 106 leading scholars arranged in alphabetical order. Contains authors, scholars, critics, literary movements and schools, publishing houses, genres, styles, themes, types, literary and poetic terms, bibliographies, and index.