Russian Authors and playwrights and george bernard shaw

Boris Pasternak

(1890-1960) Russian author of Dr. Zhivago, a novel condemning the brutality of the Stalin era. Was forced to decline the nobel prize for literature at the risk of being killed by the Soviet government.

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin Young Tatiana confesses her devotion to the titular man, but his cold refusal devastates her. Years later, when Tatiana matures, it is the man who begs for her love

The Queen of Spades

Alexander Pushkin a Russian officer of German ancestry named Hermann learns that a fellow officer's grandmother, an old countess, possesses the secret of winning at faro, a high-stakes card game

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov a tragic play examining the hopelessness of country life in Russia during the late 19th century. The title man struggled all his life in the name of his brother-in-law while taking care of his estate and child

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov captures the decline of a Russian aristocratic family and the loss of the title place, symbolizing the societal and cultural changes in early 20th-century Russia.

Seagull

Anton Chekhov generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.

The Brother Karamazov

Dostoevsky Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, who are the sons of the town reprobate. The novel follows the circumstances leading up to the murder of the brothers' father Fyodor, and the subsequent arrest of one of them for the crime.

Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky It follows a young man called Rodion Raskolnikov - first as he plots to kill an elderly pawnbroker, then as he commits the deed, and finally as he confronts the many consequences of his actions.

Notes From Underground

Dostoevsky framed as a diary of this unnamed man who has isolated himself from society and has decided to write this highly unbalanced rant about how much he hates everything and how humans are annoying and unpredictable, all while exposing how annoying and unpredictable he is himself

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw It depicts the story of Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from France who rose to prominence as a military commander by heeding the voices of the saints in her head.

Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw John Tanner, a young, radical writer, is named along with Roebuck Ramsden, an antideluvian conservative, to be the guardian of the attractive and wealthy Ann Whitefield. When Tanner realizes that Ann loves him, he orders his chauffeur Straker to drive to Spain to avoid marrying her.

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw Play that was later adopted into the movie My Fair Lady, tells the story of the poor flowergirl Eliza Doolittle and an upper classmen, Henry Higgins. Higgins bets his friend that he can turn Eliza into a proper woman.

On the Eve

Ivan Turgenev The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a hypochondriac mother and an idle father, a retired guards lieutenant with a mistress. On the day before the Crimean War, Elena is pursued by a free-spirited sculptor (Shubin) and a serious-minded student (Berzyenev).

Rudin

Ivan Turgenev centres on an excessively self-indulgent man and his doomed relationship with the daughter of his aristocratic hostess.

Home of the Gentry

Ivan Turgenev the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it.

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev Follows a pair of sibling return home to meet their father, and their relationship with each other.

A Sportsman Sketches

Ivan Turgenev's short story collection, the stories concern life in rural Russia, in particular the relationship between landowners and their serfs

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy The narrative centres on the adulterous affair between the title character, wife of Aleksey, and Count Vronsky, a young bachelor. His discovery of the liaison arouses only his concern for his own public image. The title woman promises discretion for the sake of her husband and young son but eventually becomes pregnant by Vronsky. She resolves to meet Vronsky at the train station after his errand, and she rides to the station in a stupor. At the station, despairing and dazed by the crowds, she throws herself under a train and dies.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy This epic novel draws from letters, journals, and other historical reports and examines the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812 through the eyes of five aristocratic Russian families.

Childhood, Boyhood The Death of Ivan Ilyich After the Ball Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy novels

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol An impoverished Russian government employee, Akakiky Bashmachkin, needs a new coat; he saves up his money in order to have one made. The one night he spends in celebration with his friends, he is robbed of the coat; the Russian government refuses to help him, and Akakiy freezes to death.

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol follows protagonist Chichikov as he carries out a scheme to purchase the rights of deceased serfs, or dead souls, from the Imperial Russian aristocracy. Chichikov hopes to levy the equity of his dead souls to secure a bank loan that will make him rich

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol tells the tale of a man named Kovalyov who wakes up one morning without his title body part. Normally Kovalyov loves to flirt, prides himself on his rank and title, and thinks very highly of his physical appearance. Without his body part, he struggles with low self-esteem and shame.

Nikolai Gogol

Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin, father of Russia's Golden Age of prose realism.

Boris Godunov

Upon the death of Tsar Feodor, the title man seizes the throne and begins his official reign as tsar. Initially feigning hesitation despite the overwhelming cry of the people for his appointment as tsar, he accepts the office with the guise of humility and duty

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled, written by the fictional poet John Shade. As the poem shows us, he is stability itself, living all his life in his parents' home, in the same comfortable small academic town, marrying his childhood sweetheart and in forty years never wavering in his love.

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes infatuated with a twelve-year-old girl named Lolita. Unrelibale narrator.

Ivan Turgenev

a Russian novelist, poet, and playwright known for his realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and for his penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. In 1852, he wrote an obituary for Gogol for the Saint Petersburg Gazette. Banned by the censor in Saint Petersburg, it was nevertheless published in Moscow, leading to him being briefly imprisoned then exiled for two years on his country estate.

Anton Chekhov

a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics. works provide a panoramic study of the Russia of his day, and one so accurate that it could even be used as a sociological source

Fyodor Dostoevsky

best known for his novella Notes from the Underground and for four long novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed (also and more accurately known as The Demons and The Devils), and The Brothers Karamazov.

Leo Tolstoy

considered a master of realistic fiction and one of the world's greatest novelists. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most diverse approaches to human experience. Russian.

Alexander Pushkin

credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him. considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature

George Bernard Shaw

famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. His most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

Vladimir Nabokov

was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.