Thomas wrote: "A lot of non-Russian books on this list: Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin Vladimir Nabokov – Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov – Ada Vladimir Nabokov - T..." It's a recurrent problem with these lists.

29/01/2018 · Because while this list of “must read” Russian literature includes plenty of the classics from the 19 th century, there are also examples from the 20 th and 21 st century — and they’re all books that you really, really should read. 01. of 19.

Reading List for the Comprehensive Exams in Russian Literature (Titles in bold are strongly recommended; other titles are suggested) This list charts one possible route across the Russian literary and critical tradition and is intended as a study tool, not as a definitive canon.

04/04/2015 · Russian Literature: Introduction and Reading List. Russian literature is a great way to discover more about the Russian culture and learn about the Russian ways of thinking, feeling, fighting and loving. Here we introduce the most prominent and interesting Russian writers.

Russian Reading List. show list info. For hardcore fans of Russian lit. Various titles chosen semi-randomly by me mostly based on "112 Russian Writers Ranging from Great to Freaking Great" and the NYRB Russian Classics page (and on probable availability of English translations). Covers several genres and literary eras.

Score. A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. All Votes Add Books To This List. 1. Crime and Punishment. by. Fyodor Dostoevsky. 4.24 avg rating — 724,805 ratings. score: 19,843 , and 201 people voted.

16/10/2014 · And Quiet Flows the Don. by Mikhail Sholokhov. Often compared to War and Peace, this epic historical novel traces the fate of a typical Cossack family over a tumultuous ten-year period, from just before the beginning of World War I to the bloody civil war following the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Start with the Daddy, the Don, the heavyweight that looms over all Russian literature – War and Peace. And don’t be daunted by its size - it’s incredibly readable, even page-turning. So no more excuses: if you doubt your attention will hold, treat it like a series of short stories about the same varied cast of characters.

Drage, C. L. Russian Literature in the Eighteenth Century: The Solemn Ode, the Epic, Other Poetic Genres, the Story, the Novel, Drama. London, 1978. Gasparov, M. L. Ocherk istori i russkogo stikha : Metrika, Ritmika, Rifma, Strofika . Moscow: Nauka, 1984.

Aitmatov, Chingiz, The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years, Jamila, and The Place of the Skull (Russian) Aleichem, Sholem, Tevye the Milkman and The Railroad Stories (Yiddish) Al-Jahiz, Kitab al-Bukhala (Book of Misers) or Risdlat al-qiydn (Epistle on the Singing Girls) (classical Arabic)