title: An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
author:  Nicholas Rzhevsky 
description: "As a teacher of Russian culture, I was pleased to find that Professor Rzhevsky's choice of literary texts is very sound; his volume contains most of the items that I have been assigning as reserved library reading or in xerox packets. ... The choice of literary texts is excellent. The introductory essays are interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in scope."
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  Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the 
  boundaries of their own country but across the Western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian 
  Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly commissioned essays by prominent European and 
  North-American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, 
  philosophy; the Romantic, Realist, and Modernist traditions; and technique, gender, and theory. In this context the 
  work of Pushkin, Dostoevskii, Tolstoi, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is 
  described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume 
  will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel. 
  
  © Cambridge University Press 1998 
  isbn 0521473462 
  
  CONTENTS 
  Notes on contributors - page ix