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The giants of Russian literature : Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

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  • Author: Knapp, Liza
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2006
    Summary:

    Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors.

    Contents:
    • Fiction, love, and death
    • Ivan Turgenev : a Russian novelist at home and abroad ; Relations in Fathers and sons
    • Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons ; Love and death
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky : writing for life
    • In and out of the Underground : (a reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground)
    • Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment
    • Leo Tolstyoy and the search for meaning in life
    • Entering the labyrinth of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
    • Anton Chkhov : writer, doctor, humanist
    • Chekhovian compassion : revisions of peasant life and adulterous love
    • Love and death and the Russian point of view.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies
    Sujets: Authors, Russian | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | History and criticism | Russian literature | Tolstoy, Leo | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449899134