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Worlds apart : an antholgy [i.e. anthology] of Russian fantasy and science fiction / edited and with commentary by Alexander Levitsky ; translated by Alexander Levitsky and Martha T. Kitchen.
- Title
- Worlds apart : an antholgy [i.e. anthology] of Russian fantasy and science fiction / edited and with commentary by Alexander Levitsky ; translated by Alexander Levitsky and Martha T. Kitchen.
- Publication
- New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2007.
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- Description
- 655 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Features examples from a wide range of sources and periods, and includes pieces by such top names as Pushkin and Dostoevsky, illuminating how the genre evolved during times of political, social, and technological upheaval.
- Alternative Title
- Worlds apart : an anthology of Russian fantasy and science fiction
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- novels.
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Short stories
- Novels
- Nouvelles.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [651]-655).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From the ode "God" ; The magic lantern ; Zlogor / Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin -- Autumn ; The bronze horseman ; The queen of spades / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin -- Demon ; The dream ; "Shtoss" / Mikhail Iurievich Lermontov -- The phantoms (abridged) ; two poems in prose from "Senilia" / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev -- Vyi (abridged) ; Nevsky Prospekt ; The diary of a madman ; The nose / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol -- from "The plausible fantasies" / Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin -- from "The year 4338. Letters from St. Petersburg" / Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky -- from "What is to be done: Vera Pavlovna's fourth dream" / Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky -- Bobok ; The little boy at the savior's Christmas tree / The dream of a ridiculous man / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The stranger ; from "The twelve" / Alexander Alexandrovich Blok -- Dust demons ; The Republic of the Southern Cross / Valery Iakovlevich Briusov -- The asteroid ; A little man / Fyodor Kuzmich Sologub -- Demon ; from "St. Petersburg" / Andrei Bely -- A toast ; Liquid sunshine / Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin -- The bear cub ; The blaze ; from the novels "Russia in a whirlwind" and "In a rosy light" / Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov -- The dragon ; The cave ; from "We" / Evgeny Ivanovich Zamiatin -- A year in their life ; from "The naked year" / Boris Andreevich Pilniak -- Signs of zodiac ; Human of the snows / Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky -- The young man who surprized the watchman ; The dream / Daniel Kharms -- Love ; On the fantasy of H.G. Wells / Yuri Karlovich Yuri Olesha -- The fatal eggs ; from "Master and Margarita" / Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov -- from "The red star" / Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov -- from "Aelita" / Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy -- from "The sun, the moon, and the ether channel" / Andrei Platonovich Platonov -- from "The Andromeda nebula" / Ivan Antonovich Efremov.
- ISBN
- 9781585678198 (hbk.)
- 1585678198 (hbk.)
- 9781585678204 (pbk.)
- 1585678201 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 124026351
- SCSB-11991862
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library