Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors.
Russian literature
- Author:Knapp, LizaSummary:
- Author:Tolstoy, Leo.Summary:
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a...
- Author:Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, Vaselii IvanovichSummary:
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping...