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CONTENTS —Helen and Insaroff—Bazároff—Why Fathers and Sons was misunderstood—Hamlet and Don Quixote—Virgin Soil—Movement towards the people—Tolstóy—Childhood and Boyhood—During and after the Crimean War—Youth: in search of an ideal—Small stories—The Cossacks—Educational work—War and Peace—Anna Karenina—Religious crisis—His interpretation of the Christian teaching—Main points of Christian ethics—Latest works of art—Kreutzer Sonata—Resurrection.

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Gontcharoff—Oblomoff—The Russian malady of Oblomoffdom—Is it exclusively Russian? The Precipice—Dostoyevskiy—His first novel—General character of his work—Memoirs from a Dead House—Down-trodden and Offended—Crime and Punishment—The Brothers Karamazoff—Nekrasoff—Discussions about his talent—His love of the people—Apotheosis of Woman—Other prose-writers of the same epoch—Serghei Aksakoff—Dal—Ivan Panaeff—Hvoschinskaya (V. Krestovskiy-pseudonyme)—Poets of the same epoch—Koltsoff—Nikitin—Pleschéeff—The admirers of pure art: Tutcheff; A. Maykoff; Scherbina; A. Fet—A. K. Tolstoy—The Translators.

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Its origin—The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.—Sumarokoff—Pseudo-classical tragedies: Knyazhnin; Ozeroff—First comedies—The first years of the nineteenth century—Griboyedoff—The Moscow stage in the fifties—Ostrovskiy: his first dramas—The Thunderstorm—Ostrovskiy's later dramas—Historical dramas: A. K. Tolstoy—Other dramatic writers.

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Their position in Russian literature—The early folknovelists—Grigirovitch—Marko Vovtchok—Danilevskiy—Intermediate period: Kokoreff; Pisemskiy; Potyekhin—Ethnographical researches—The realistic school: Pomyalovskiy—Ryeshetnikoff—Levitoff—Gleb Uspenskiy—Zlatovratskiy and Other folk-novelists: Naumoff—Zasodimskiy—Saloff—Nefedoff—Modern realism: Maxim Gorkiy.