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Title: History of Russian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1900 (Vintage Russian Library V-720) by Francis J. Whitfield, Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky, Dimitry S. Mirsky ISBN: 0394707206 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: September, 1958 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.96 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic
Comment: Prince Mirsky's good old book has in fact not been excelled by any other work concerning Russian literature from its beginnings to 1900. It is packed with information, and still very comprehensive and intriguing indeed in its analyses and anecdotes.
It also provides some entertaining lingual gems - the writer Derzhavin's prose, for example, is by Mirsky characterised as 'virile', and his philosophy as 'manfully thankful for the joys of ephemeral life', while the influent literary criticist Belinsky's style is condemned as 'execrable lingo'.
Anyone interested in Russian literature should read this book. As a reference book it serves excellently.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic History of Classic Literature
Comment: A compilation of Mirsky's "A History of Russian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Death of Dostoyevsky" combined with the first two chapters of his "Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881-1925." Mirsky was, indeed, a contemporary historian of some of the greatest writers of fiction. Tolstoy, Doestoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov and Turgenev are explored within the historical and physical framework in which they lived.
This books is a classic exploration of Russian Literature that has had a great deal of impact on the teaching and understanding of Russian Literature. For example, the leading translators of Russian Literature, Pevear and Volokhonsky, make use of Mirsky's history. Their translation of Chekhov stories even recommends Mirsky's section on Checkhov. Their recommendation is, of course, of much greater import than mine.
Mirsky created a classic historical work of literature. It is one of the guides you need to understand some of the greatest literature of all time.
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Title: A Hero of Our Time (Everyman's Library) by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov, Vladimir Nobokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Timothy Binyon, Vladimir Nabokov ISBN: 0679413278 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Handbook of Russian Literature by Victor Terras ISBN: 0300048688 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: A History of Russian Literature by Victor Terras ISBN: 0300059345 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Dead Souls (Vintage Classics) by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol ISBN: 0679776443 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Winnie-The-Pooh's 2004 Wall Calendar by Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0525471170 Publisher: Penguin USA (Cal) Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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