Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Barbara Makanowitzky Gleb Struve
This collection includes, The Duel, Ward No.6, A Woman's Kingdom, Three Years, My Life, Peasants and In the Ravine, in addition to a biographical introduction and a chronology.
This collection includes, The Duel, Ward No.6, A Woman's Kingdom, Three Years, My Life, Peasants and In the Ravine, in addition to a biographical intr...
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his emigre period. In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking...
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigra...
Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished with a new bibliography, and complements the stories and plays by Chekhov already available in the BCP Russian Texts series. The twelve stories, which date from 1883 to 1896, range from miniatures of comic levity such as Tolsttyi i tonkii to stories of sophisticated maturity such as Dom s mezoninom. The stories included are as follows...
Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. Th...