The Portable 20th-Century Russian Reader (Clarence Brown, ed.)

* THE PORTABLE TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN READER (Penguin Classics, 1993). Revised and updated edition. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Clarence Brown. 640 pp. -- ePUB + MOBI

Clarence Brown's marvelous anthology introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russian literature. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago", and Sasha Solokov's "A School for Fools"; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece "Envy"; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.