The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)

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.

Name in long format: The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)
ISBN-10: 0142437573
ISBN-13: 9780142437575
Book pages: 640
Book language: en
Edition: Rev and Updated ed.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Dimensions: Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5.1 Inches, Weight: 0.95 Pounds, Width: 1.4 Inches

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