Essays on Russian Novelists

The great Russian novelists of perhaps only approached by the 19th century composers of classical music. What made them tick and what makes their works keep on ticking? Professor William Lyon Phelps offers us a delicious beginning with a superb analysis of the Russian character in fiction and follow with a cogent presentation of the lives and works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoi, Gorki, Chekhov, Artsbashev, Andreev and Kuprin. completely retyped and indexed for this publication.