The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more

Russian Drama and Tales of Faith, Class, and Conscience

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, C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett

• Publisher: e-artnow
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9788026838425
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more
• Table of Contents
• Plays:
• INTRODUCTION
• THE WEDDING [trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts]
• THE JUBILEE [trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ]
• A MERRY DEATH
• THE BEAUTIFUL DESPOT
• THE CHOICE OF A TUTOR
• THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: A COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS
• SAVVA
• THE LIFE OF MAN
• Short Stories:
• Essays:
• On Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
• Lectures on Russian Novelists by Ivan Panin