Introduction: Before They Were Titans
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

the short stories, plays, and one novel of Nikolai Gogol; the novels of Ivan Turgenev and Ivan Goncharov; and hundreds of stories and sketches by Anton Chekhov.However extraordinary many of those works are-and however many excellent second-and third-tier authors of nineteenthcentury Russia there were-they would not elevate Russian literature to rank among the handful of the world's preeminent literary traditions.The great works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy do that almost by themselves.Sy