A treasury of Russian literature : being a comprehensive selection of many of the best things by numerous authors in practically every field of the rich literature of Russia from its beginnings to the present, with much material now first made available in English, and all of the accepted favorites newly translated or their current translations thoroughly revised
How Vladimir of Kiev and all Russia were baptized / The lay of the host of Igor / Of the Kitovras / Ilya of Murom and the sandaled pilgrims ; Ilya of Murom and the most monstrous idol / Traveler's tales / God ; Plaint / Epigram ; Poets / The cat and the cook ; The swan, the pike, and the crab ; The ape and the spectacles / Song ; The midnight muster at Waterloo ; Remembrance / The queen of spades ; The tale of the golden cockerel ; As leaden as the aftermath of wine ; Remembrance ; I loved you once ; Life's stage coach ; The lay of Oleg the Wise / Ashik-Kerib: a Turkish fairy tale ; The chalice of life ; Lonely and far a white sail soars ; The angel ; Testament ; A song of Czar Ivan Vassilievich the Terrible, of his young bodyguard, and of Kalashnicov, the bold trading man / I will saddle a steed / The overcoat ; The inspector general ; The Russian word / Letter to Gogol / Fathers and sons ; The Russian tongue / Notes from underground / The virtues and the vices / Yardstick : the story of a horse ; The death of Ivan Ilyich ; The imp and the crust ; How much land does a man need? / Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Life / The clown ; The lowest depths / Work of art ; The chorus lady ; The three sisters / Peter and Alexis / Lazarus ; Ben-Tobith ; Freedom / The amphora ; Vanquish all your gladness ; Three gobs of spit / The gentleman from San Francisco / The bracelet of garnets / The young man who flew past ; The man with a green necktie / The republic of the southern cross ; Litany ; Her knees ; Birds of fury / The gray-eyed king / The twelve / Black and white ; Little parlor-Red Riding Hood / Tooth-jerking ; The agitator / Proverbs.
Guerney, Bernard Guilbert, 1894-1979, editor.
Friar Nestor -- Poet unknown -- Apocrypha -- Folk epos -- Athanassii Nikitin -- Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin -- Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev -- Ivan Andreievich Krylov -- Vassilii Andreievich Zhucovski -- Alexander Sergheievich Pushkin -- Michael Urievich Lermontov -- Alexei Vassilievich Koltzov -- Nicholas Vassilievich Gogol -- Vissarion Gregorievich Belinski -- Ivan Sergheievich Turgenev -- Theodore Michaelovich Dostoievski -- Michael Eugraphovich Saltycov (M. Shchedrin) -- Leo Nicolaievich Tolstoi -- Nicholas Semyonovich Lescov -- Vsevolod Michaelovich Garshin -- Alexis Maximovich Peshcov (Maxin Gorki) -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- Dmitrii Sergheievich Merezhcovski -- Leonid Nicolaievich Andreiev -- Theodore Kusmich Teternicov (Theodore Sologub) -- Ivan Alexeievich Bunin -- Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin -- Arcadii Timotheich Averchenco -- Valerii Yacovlevich Briussov -- Anna Ahmatova -- Alexander Alexandrovich Block -- Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayacovski -- Michael Michaelovich Zoshchenko --
Selected and edited, with a foreword and biographical and critical notes, by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.
A treasury of Russian literature : being a comprehensive selection of many of the best things by numerous authors in practically every field of the rich literature of Russia from its beginnings to the present, with much material now first made available in English, and all of the accepted favorites newly translated or their current translations thoroughly revised