RUSSIAN LEGACY Boxed Set: The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends
A Treasury of Russian Fiction, Drama, Folklore, and SatireBy Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, Leonid Andreyev, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin, Nikolai Evreinov, Denis Fonvizin, Ivan Goncharov, Saki, H. H. Munro
Length375h 46m
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RUSSIAN LEGACY Boxed Set gathers a capacious canon of novels, short fiction, drama, folk narratives, and legends into an illuminating survey of Russian literary imagination. Moving from satire and social comedy to psychological intensity, moral inquiry, realism, symbolism, and the grotesque, the volume traces enduring concerns with authority, faith, class, family, violence, and the divided self. Major works of fiction stand beside compact tales and theatrical experiments, allowing epic social canvases to converse with uncanny sketches, comic observation, and popular tradition. Its contributors span the nineteenth-century flowering of Russian literature through the turbulent fin-de-siècle and early modern period. Poets, novelists, playwrights, satirists, and chroniclers of provincial and urban life collectively register the pressures of imperial society, reform, revolution, and spiritual uncertainty. Their varied idioms—from Pushkinian elegance and Gogolian absurdity to Tolstoyan ethical breadth, Dostoevskian inward drama, Chekhovian restraint, and Gorkyan social vision—situate the set within realism, Romanticism, naturalism, Symbolism, and the modernist turn. The inclusion of Saki further invites a comparative encounter with European satirical short fiction. Recommended for students, general readers, and established admirers alike, this boxed set offers an exceptional opportunity to read Russian literature as a living dialogue among forms and generations. Its breadth supports both historical study and serendipitous discovery, revealing how folk memory, theatricality, social critique, and psychological art continually reshape one another.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length375 hrs 46 mins
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Publish dateSep 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Idiot (The Unabridged Eva Martin Translation) (Annotated)
2RUSSIAN LEGACY Boxed Set: The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends (120 Titles in One Volume)
3Introduction:: The Rise of the Russian Empire (H. H. Munro aka Saki)
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)
28A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
29FOREWORD
30BOOK I BELA THE HEART OF A RUSSIAN
31BOOK II MAKSIM MAKSIMYCH
32BOOK IV THE SECOND EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY THE FATALIST
33BOOK V THE THIRD EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY (pt. 1)
34BOOK V THE THIRD EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY (pt. 2)
35APPENDIX
36PART I (pt. 1)
37PART I (pt. 2)
38PART II
39PART III
40PART IV
41Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 1)
42Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 2)
43Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 3)
44Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) (pt. 4)
45Fyodor Dostoevsky:
46Crime and Punishment
47Translator’s Preface
48Part I (pt. 1)
49Part I (pt. 2)
50Part II (pt. 1)
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