The Foundations of Fiction - Russian Realism: Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres
About this audiobook
Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.
Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues.
Throughout literary history Russian writing has been both applauded and lauded as fiction of the first rank. It’s authors down the decades are many and each of them has consummate talents and knowledge that few, if any, can argue with.
In this volume we present stories that explain and reveal Russian Realism, in ways that are absorbing, startling and capture a world with precise and literary verve.
01 - Foundations of Fiction - Russian Realism - An Introduction
2 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy
3 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
4 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev
6 - Old Fashioned Landowners by Nikolai Gogol
7 - The City by Leonid Andreyev
8 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
9 - Gentle Breathing by Ivan Bunin
10 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin
11 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev
12 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko
13 - The General's Will by Vera Jelihovsky
14 - Misery by Anton Chekhov
15 - The Rendezvous by Ivan Turgenev
16 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev
17 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov
18 - The Murderer by Mikhail Bulgakov
19 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy
20 - The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky
22 - About Love by Anton Chekhov
23 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev
24 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov
25 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev
