The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterwords of world literature as Pushkin's poem 'The Bronze Horseman'; Gogol's 'The Overcoat'; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llych; and 'The Grand Inquisitor' episode form Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Schedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.