Lectures On Russian Literature; edited, with an introduction, by Fredson Bowers by Nabokov, Vladimir (Vladimirovich). ; Bowers, Fredson (editor, writer of introduction) - 1981

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, 1981. 1st ed, 2nd printing, "B". Hardcover. Owner name to FEP; minor foxing to top edge, else very good+ in a very good(-) edge-worn jacket now housed in archival mylar. xvii, 324 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates: facsimiles ; 26 cm. A Harvest book; [series].

Contents: Dead Souls (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) -- The Overcoat (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) -- Fathers and Sons (1862) / Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) -- Crime and Punishment (1866) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) -- Memoirs from a Mousehole (1864) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) -- The idiot (1868) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) -- The Possessed (1872) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) -- The Brothers Karamazov (1880) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) -- Anna Karenin / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884-1886) / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) -- In the Gully (1900) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) -- Notes on The Seagull (1896) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) -- On the Rafts (1895) / Maxim Gorki (1868-1936).

The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on 19th century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol's Dead Souls and "The Overcoat"; Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorki's "On the Rafts"; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevski, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. This volume also includes Nabokov's lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov's original notes

Littérature russe -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Russian literature. Letterkunde. Russisch. Time: 1800-1899 Identifier: Russian literature; 19th century; History and criticism.