Tolstoy's most celebrated short story, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", takes place at the deathbed of an ordinary man who is forced to contemplate not only his own death but the great philosophical questions that have never troubled him before. The story reflects Tolstoy's preoccupations during his profound spiritual crisis in 1881.
Oblomov was considered a satirical portrait of the Russian aristocracy, who no longer had a useful role in society. Oblomov is a nineteenth century Russian landowner brought up to do nothing for himself. He, like his parents, only eats and sleeps. He barely graduates from college and cannot force himself to do any kind of work, feeling that work ...
This collection -- unique to the Modern Library -- gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works, including his most famous story, "Notes from Underground". Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's important translation.
Konstantin Stanislavsky is one of the colossi not simply of Russian, but American and European theatre. The works of the creator of the Stanislavsky System -- which later gave rise to the Method -- have tended to shroud him in mystique, leading his followers to revere him as a saint and his detractors to dismiss him out of hand. David Magarshack's ...
Many of Dostoevski's stories concentrate on decisive moments in the meagre existences of the poor and downtrodden. His four-year sentence to hard labor in Siberia, the result of his revolutionary activities, developed in Dostoevski an appreciation for the inner life of the common man that he never lost, and that is reflected in nearly all of his ...
A collection of articles, sketches, and letters spanning 33 years in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing career, from 1847, just after the successful publication of his first novel, until 1880, a year before his death. This volume allows the reader to measure the broad scope of his artistic development and the changes that occurred as a result of such ...
Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially "Russian" of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise.
United in this volume are Anton Chekhov's four most celebrated masterpieces, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-timeless plays that have attracted theatergoers for almost a century, here presented in superb translations by David Magarshack.
Exploring many of the themes contained in Dostoevsky's novels, this unique collection of short masterpieces illuminates the author's astonishing depth and current relevance.
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