| The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader Rev and Updated Edition Contributor(s): Various (Author), Brown, Clarence (Introduction by), Brown, Clarence (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 0142437573 ISBN-13: 9780142437575 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: 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. Edited by Clarence Brown. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - General - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.700 |
| LCCN: 2003283124 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.95 lbs) 640 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |