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The Russian Masters: Works by Dostoevsky Chekhov Tolstoy Pushkin Gogol Turgenev and More - Short Stories Plays Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists - cover

The Russian Masters: Works by Dostoevsky Chekhov Tolstoy Pushkin Gogol Turgenev and More - Short Stories Plays Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists

Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov, A.S. Puschkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin

Translator C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett

Publisher: Musaicum Books

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Summary

It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: 
Plays: Introduction, The Wedding, The Jubilee, A Merry Death, The Beautiful Despot, The Choice of a Tutor, The Inspector General, Savva, The Life of Man, Short Stories, The Queen of Spades, The Cloak, The District Doctor, The Christmas Tree And The Wedding, God Sees The Truth, But Waits, How A Muzhik Fed, Two Officials, The Shades, A Phantasy, The Signal, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, Hide And Seek, Dethroned, The Servant, One Autumn Night, Her Lover Lazarus, The Revolutionist, The Outrage, An Honest Thief, A Novel in Nine Letters, An Unpleasant Predicament, Another Man's Wife, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey, The Crocodile Bobok, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu, The Shot, St. John'S Eve, An Old Acquaintance, The Mantle, The Nose, Memoirs Of A Madman, A May Night, The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock, The Inn, Lieutenant Yergunov's Story, The Dog, The Watch, Essay on Russian Novelists, Lectures on Russian Novelists
Available since: 10/06/2017.
Print length: 3800 pages.

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