Russian Literature: The novel as a moral instrument

The astonishing Russian century — Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Turgenev — where fiction took on the largest questions of the soul.

In this collection

• The Partition of the Inheritance
• Difficult People
• The Crane and the Stork
• Boots
• Ionitch
• The Grasshopper
• Bobok from Somebody's Diary
• Polzunkov. a Story
• An Unpleasant Predicament
• The Pipe
• The Shoemaker and the Devil
• A Father
• The Different Connection of Particles
• The Two Volodyas
• The Wolf and the Hunters
• The Double
• The Sea-Gull
• The Two Peasants
• A Blunder
• The Three Hermits
• The Fox's Tail
• The Bishop
• What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk
• Traveller and Peasant
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