The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

, by ; ;
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Various; Brown, Clarence; Brown, Clarence, 9780142437575
Write a Review
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
  • ISBN: 9780142437575 | 0142437573
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 7/29/2003

Purchase Options

  • Rent

    (Recommended)

    $12.72
    Term
    Due
    Price
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping bag.

  • Buy Used

    In Stock Usually Ships in 24 Hours.

    $18.53

  • Buy New

    This is a hard-to-find title. We are making every effort to obtain this item, but do not guarantee stock.

    $25.71

  • eBook

    eTextBook from VitalSource Icon

    Available Instantly

    Lifetime Access

    *To support the delivery of the digital material to you, a digital delivery fee of $3.99 will be charged on each digital item.
    $7.99*
For most of the twentieth century Russia existed under some form of dictatorship-with the paradoxical effect that in Russia literature continued to matter as it did in few other countries. From Tolstoy to Nabokov, the writers of modern Russia have possessed the power to enrage tyrants, to inspire allegiance and devotion in their readers, and to speak for the suffocating conscience of their motherland, even when they are addressing the least political of issues. Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces us to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools, as well as the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam - all in authoritative English translations that convey their music as well as their meaning.