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

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    Running Time: 74400
    Narrator: Liza Knapp
    Publisher: Recorded Books,

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  • Author: Knapp, Liza
    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
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. , [Prince Frederick, Md.] , Recorded Books , [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781449899134

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Abstract

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

Genre
Biographies and autobiographies
Publisher (Source)

Prince Frederick, Md.

[Prince Frederick, Md.]

Recorded Books

[Distributed by] OneClick Digital

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