The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends
Russian Classics, Folk Tales, Drama, Satire, and Moral ConflictBy Leonid Andreyev, Saki, Herman Bernstein, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin, H. H. Munro, Ivan Goncharov
Length368h 17m
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The Giants of Russian Literature gathers novels, stories, plays, folk narratives, and legends into a capacious portrait of Russia's literary imagination. Its range extends from Romantic experiment and Gothic grotesque to realist social observation, satire, psychological fiction, and symbolist unease. Canonical explorations of conscience, bureaucracy, rural life, violence, and spiritual crisis stand beside shorter tales whose compression intensifies their irony and moral ambiguity. The volume's breadth illuminates the enduring dialogue between folklore and modern literary form. Its contributors span the nineteenth-century golden age through late-imperial realism and early modernist sensibilities, while the inclusion of cosmopolitan commentators and writers underscores Russian literature's international circulation. Together, these voices register the tensions of autocracy, reform, urbanization, class hierarchy, and revolutionary expectation. Their differing approaches—comic, tragic, documentary, allegorical, and philosophical—make the collection more than a canon of "great names": it becomes a record of changing cultural consciousness. Recommended for students, general readers, and established admirers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich entry into a major literary tradition. Reading across its forms and historical moments reveals recurring questions of freedom, justice, faith, identity, and social responsibility. The resulting conversation among texts rewards both close study and wide-ranging discovery.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length368 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Russian Short Stories & Plays
2The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends
3Introduction:
4The Rise of the Russian Empire (H. H. Munro aka Saki)
5PREFACE
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6WORKS CONSULTED
7CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
8CHAPTER II THE COMING OF THE VARANGIANS AND THE BUILDING OF KIEVIAN RUSSIA
9CHAPTER III THE FEUDS OF THE HOUSE OF RURIK
10CHAPTER IV THE COMING OF THE MONGOLS
11CHAPTER V “THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN”
12CHAPTER VI THE GROWING OF THE GERM
13CHAPTER VII THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI AND THE FIRST OF THE AUTOCRATS
14CHAPTER VIII IVAN GROZNIE
15CHAPTER IX THE GREAT BOYARIN
16CHAPTER X THE PHANTOM TZAR
17CHAPTER XI “THIS SIDE THE HILL”
18GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN WORDS EMPLOYED WITHOUT EXPLANATION IN TEXT
19Novels & Novellas:
20Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
21Part I (pt. 1)
22Part I (pt. 2)
23Part I (pt. 3)
24Part I (pt. 4)
25Part I (pt. 5)
26Part I (pt. 6)
27Part I (pt. 7)
28PART I (pt. 1)
29PART I (pt. 2)
30PART II
31PART III
32PART IV
33Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 1)
34Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 2)
35Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 3)
36Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 4)
37Fyodor Dostoevsky:
38Crime and Punishment
39Translator’s Preface
40Part I (pt. 1)
41Part I (pt. 2)
42Part II (pt. 1)
43Part II (pt. 2)
44Part III (pt. 1)
45Part III (pt. 2)
46Part IV (pt. 1)
47Part IV (pt. 2)
48Part V (pt. 1)
49Part V (pt. 2)
50Part VI (pt. 1)
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