The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently
represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of
world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The
Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's
The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from
Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories,
novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova,
Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished
scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical
essays, and a bibliography.