The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more
Russian Drama and Tales of Faith, Class, and ConscienceBy Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin
Length60h 24m
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This capacious anthology surveys Russian drama and short fiction from the nineteenth century into the modern era, tracing the pressures of autocracy, social change, spiritual crisis, and everyday absurdity. It moves among realist observation, psychological intensity, satire, symbolism, melodrama, and naturalist social critique. Canonical masterpieces stand beside less frequently encountered works, allowing comic grotesque, intimate domestic drama, provincial sketches, and unsettling studies of alienation to illuminate one another. Its contributors comprise a remarkable cross-section of Russian letters: writers associated with the great realist tradition join innovators of theatrical form, advocates of social consciousness, satirists of bureaucracy, and figures linked to Symbolism and early modernism. Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorky appear within a wider literary constellation including Korolenko, Garshin, Sologub, Andreyev, Kuprin, and others. Together, these voices register the evolving relation between individual conscience and public life across imperial Russia's turbulent cultural landscape. Recommended for students, theater readers, and general admirers of Russian literature, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare modes, periods, and ethical visions in a single book. Its breadth makes it valuable both as an introduction and as a companion for deeper study, fostering a productive dialogue between celebrated classics and rediscovered contemporaries.
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Length60 hrs 24 mins
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Publish dateJun 2, 2015
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Table of contents
1Jewish Stories (Annotated)
26THE FIRST ACT
2The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more
27THE SECOND ACT
3Plays:
28THE THIRD ACT
4INTRODUCTION
29THE FOURTH ACT
5THE WEDDING [trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts]
30THE LIFE OF MAN
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6THE JUBILEE [trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ]
31PERSONS
7A MERRY DEATH
32THE FIRST SCENE
8THE BEAUTIFUL DESPOT
33THE SECOND SCENE
9THE CHOICE OF A TUTOR
34THE THIRD SCENE
10Scene I
35THE FOURTH SCENE
11Scene II
36THE FIFTH SCENE
12Scene III
37Short Stories:
13THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: A COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS
38INTRODUCTION
14INTRODUCTION
39THE QUEEN OF SPADES
15CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
40THE CLOAK
16CHARACTERS AND COSTUMES
41THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
17ACT I
42THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING
18ACT II
43GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
19ACT III
44HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS
20ACT IV
45THE SHADES, A PHANTASY
21ACT V
46THE SIGNAL
22LAST SCENE
47THE DARLING
23SILENT SCENE
48THE BET
24SAVVA
49VANKA
25PERSONS
50HIDE AND SEEK
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