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• Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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• Russian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism

• An Outline of Russian Literature (London: Williams and Norgate; et al., c1915), by Maurice Baring (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Survey of Russian Literature, With Selections (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1902), by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Literaturnaia Gazeta (in Russian) (partial serial archives)
• Literaturnoe Nasledstvo (partial serial archives)

• Essays on Russian Novelists, by William Lyon Phelps (Gutenberg text)

• The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Russell Scott Valentino (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Russell Scott Valentino (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poetry and Progress in Russia (London and New York: J. Lane, 1907), by Rosa Newmarch
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton, and Alexandra Smith (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Mandelstam, Blok, and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Stuart Goldberg (PDF at Ohio State)

• Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Michael C. Finke (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)
• Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by John Glad, trans. by Richard M. Robin and Joanna Robin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lyudmila Parts (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lyudmila Parts (PDF at Ohio State)

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• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Di͡etinet͡s (only issue of this publication, in Russian; Berlin: Russkai͡a tip. E.A. Gutnova, 1922)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Read.Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices (New York: Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, c2012), ed. by E. D. Shubina (PDF with commentary at readrussia.org)

• Bibliography of Translations from Russian Scientific and Technical Literature (full serial archives)

• Literaturnaia Gazeta (in Russian) (partial serial archives)
• Zvezda (in Russian) (partial serial archives)

• Five Russian Plays, With One From the Ukrainian (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), trans. by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts, contrib. by N. N. Evreinov, D. I. Fonvizin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, and Lesia Ukrainka (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bakchesarian Fountain, by Alexander Pooshkeen, and Other Poems by Various Authors, by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, trans. by William D. Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Songs of Russia, Rendered Into English Verse, ed. by Alice Stone Blackwell (HTML at armenianhouse.org)
• The Talisman, From the Russian of Alexander Pushkin; With Other Pieces, by George Borrow, contrib. by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and Adam Mickiewicz (Gutenberg text)

• Walk in the Light, and Twenty Three Tales (Rifton, NY et al.: Plough Publishing House, c2011), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (PDF at plough.com)

• The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories, by Leonid Andreyev, trans. by Herman Bernstein (Gutenberg text)

• Mir Prikli͡ucheniĭ (Russian fiction magazine; linked set is taken from ca. 1910-1914 issues; US access only) (partial serial archives)

• Old Russian Stories (New York: A.S. Barnes, 1960), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', ed. by J. I. Rodale, illust. by Philip Evergood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best Russian Short Stories, ed. by Thomas Seltzer, contrib. by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, V. M. Garshin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, I. N. Potapenko, S. T. Semyonov, Maksim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, M. Artsybashev, and A. I. Kuprin (Gutenberg text)
• The Mantle, and Other Stories (New York: F. A. Stokes; London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1916), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Claud Field, contrib. by Prosper Mérimée
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Stories By Foreign Authors: Russian, contrib. by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', and Leo Tolstoy (Gutenberg text)
• Stories of the Steppe (Boston: The Stratford Co., 1918), by Maksim Gorky, trans. by Henry Thomas and Isaac Goldberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Zhizn' Vverkh Nogami: I͡umoristicheskīe Ocherki i Parodīi (in Russian; St. Petersburg: Tip. F. Vaĭsberga i Gershunina, 1911), by Ivan Shcheglov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

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