num_pages: 615
description: Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.
language: English
title: The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
titlecomplete: The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Russian Literature, Russia, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Poetry, Russian History
ratings_count: 286
publisher: Penguin Books