This indispensable text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. This book contains the Russian text of …
Prof. Briggs provides an introduction which looks closely at the poetryand then, taking the death of Lensky as the most important event, considers the sotry, the characters and the …
Revizor is the great comic masterpiece of nineteenth- century Russian theatre. Its central role, that of Khlestakov - the opportunistic yarn-spinner who is mistaken by provincial …
The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually …
Turgenev's povest' (or novella) Asya, of 1858, has a Rhineland setting. Asya, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian landowner, is travelling abroad with her half-brother. The …
This edition contains three of Ta'tiana Tolstaia's stories: "Sweet Shura" ("Milaia Shura"), "Peters" ("Peters"), and "The Okkerril River" ("Reka Okkerril"). The book is in Russian …
Chekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety ofinterpretations - both in criticism and in performance - since itspremiere at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1901. Tri …
This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. The influence of Andrey Platonov (1899-1951), a …
