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Russia: Its People and Its Literature

Russia: Its People and Its Literature

by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán

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Author
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de, 1852-1921
Credits
E-text prepared by Andrea Ball & Marc D'Hooghe ( www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
Subject
Russia -- Civilization
Category
Text
eBook-No.
41495
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41495
Release Date
November 26, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.RUSSIA — ITS PEOPLE AND ITS LITERATURE — BY
  2. 2.EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN — Translated from the Spanish — By FANNY HALE GARDINER — TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — Book I. — THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIA. — I. — Scope And Purpose of the Present Essay. — II. — The Russian Country. — III. — The Russian Race. — IV. — Russian History. — V. — The Russian Autocracy. — VI. — The Agrarian Communes. — VII. — Social Classes in Russia. — VIII. — Russian Serfdom. — Book II. — RUSSIAN NIHILISM AND ITS LITERATURE. — I. — The Word "Nihilism." — II. — Origin of the Intellectual Revolution. — III. — Woman and the Family. — IV. — Going to the People. — V. — Herzen and the Nihilist Novel. — VI. — The Reign of Terror. — VII. — The Police and the Censor. — Book III. — RISE OF THE RUSSIAN NOVEL. — I. — The Beginnings of Russian Literature. — II. — Russian Romanticism.—the Lyric Poets. — III. — Russian Realism: Gogol, its Founder. — Book IV. — MODERN RUSSIAN REALISM. — I. — Turguenief, Poet and Artist. — II. — Gontcharof and Oblomovism. — III. — Dostoiëwsky, Psychologist and Visionary. — IV. — Tolstoï, Nihilist and Mystic. — V. — French Realism and Russian Realism.

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