| Description |
x, 383 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
"Contains Mirsky's A history of Russian literature from the earliest times to the death of Dostoyevsky (1881) and the first two chapters of his Contemporary Russian literature, 1881-1925"--Pref. |
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Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. The Literature of Old Russia 3 -- 2. The Passing of Old Russia 31 -- 3. The Age of Classicism 41 -- 4. The Golden Age of Poetry 73 -- 5. The Age of Gogol 127 -- 6. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (I) 177 -- 7. The Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and Playwrights 215 -- 8. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (II) 256 -- 9. The End of a Great Age 302 -- 10. The Eighties and Early Nineties 347. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Whitfield, Francis J. (Francis James), 1916-1996.
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| ISBN |
0810116790 (paper : alk. paper) |
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9780810116795 (paper : alk. paper) |
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