Lectures_on_Russian_Literature

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6、ers5LECTURESONRUSSIANLITERATURE11RussianWriters,Censors,andReaders12NIKOLAYGOGOL(1809-1852)19DeadSouls(1842)20—"TheOvercoat"(1842)41IVANTURGENEV(1818-1883)45FathersandSons(1862)49FYODORDOSTOEVSKI(1821-1881)67CrimeandPunishment(1866)74—"MemoirsfromaMousebole"(1864)77—TheIdiot(1868)84—T

7、hePossessed(1872)85—TheBrothersKaramazov(1880)87LEOTOLSTOY(1828-1910)91AnnaKarenin(1877)92—TheDeathofIvanIlyich(1884-1886)148ANTONCHEKHOV(1860-1904)153"TheLadywiththeLittleDog"(1899)159—"IntheGully"(1900)164—NotesonTheSeagull(1896)175MAXIMGORKI(1868-1936)183"OntheRafts"(1895)188Philis

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