Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. 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.

Contents:

• Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy
• The Bishop by Anton Chekhov
• Recollections of Leo Tolstoy by Maxim Gorky
• Light Breathing by Ivan Bunin
• Time by Nadezhda Teffi
• A Girl Was Singing by Alexander Blok
• The Stranger by Alexander Blok
• from Petersburg by Andrei Bely
• The Cave by Evgeni Zamyatin
• Nikolai by Velimir Khlebnikov
• Three Things in this World He Loved by Anna Akhmatova
• We're No Good at Saying Good-bye by Anna Akhmatova
• Dante by Anna Akhmatova
• When a Man Dies by Anna Akhmatova
• Courage by Anna Akhmatova
• The Potudan River by Andrei Platonov
• Varykino [from Dr. Zhivago] by Boris Pasternak
• Hamlet [from Dr. Zhivago]by Boris Pasternak
• March [from Dr. Zhivago]by Boris Pasternak
• Theodosia by Osip Mandelstam
• The Admiralty by Osip Mandelstam
• The Thread of Gold Cordial Flowed by Osip Mandelstam
• Leningrad by Osip Mandelstam
• O Lord, Help Me to Live Through this Night by Osip Mandelstam
• The Last Supper by Osip Mandelstam
• from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• My First Goose by Isaac Babel
• How It was Done in Odessa by Isaac Babel
• My First Fee by Isaac Babel
• Bees and People [from Before Sunrise] by Mikhail Zoshchenko
• Envy by Yuri Olesha
• The Return of Chorb by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
• A May Night by Nadezhda Mandelstam
• Last Letter by Nadezhda Mandelstam
• Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life by Daniil Kharms
• The Connection by Daniil Kharms
• Prosthetic Appliances by Varlam Shalamov
• A Child's Drawings by Varlam Shalamov
• Lend-Lease by Varlam Shalamov
• Matryona's Home by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Pkhentz by Andrei Sinyavsky
• Adam and Eve by Yuri Kazakov
• from Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov
• A Circle of Friends by Vladimir Voinovich
• from A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov