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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)

The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)

The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

Penned By Clarence Brown
4.85 79,490 Ratings
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Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. 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.

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Length 615 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Penguin Books
Released June 4, 1985
Identifier (ISBN) 404150
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