Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

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EDITORIAL REVIEW

Twelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Dover Publications
Pub. Date: 1st February 1990
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 416
Ean: 9780486262444
Isbn: 0486262448

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USER REVIEWS

Great learning tool
~ Written on Nov 3, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

The stories are fun to read and since the English is right next to the Russian, it makes reading even more enjoyable and easy.

Very useful for studies of advanced English
~ Written on Nov 1, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

I am a native Russian speaker and as an advanced learner of English I found this book amazingly useful. It spurs your curiosity to first read the original Russian text and then see how Prof. Struve goes about translating the endless archaisms and idiosyncrasies of the 19-th century Russian.

Kudos to Prof. Struve!

A fabulous language resource. Give me more books like this!
~ Written on Jan 23, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

As a long time student of Russian, I have found it very difficult to lay hands on dual language books like this one. On the left page is the original Russian text, and on the right is a corresponding (and very well rendered) English translation. The true beauty of this volume, though, is that the modern translation provides a bridge to the literary style from the age of the masters like Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and my personal favorite, Gogol, among many others. An even dozen stories allow intermediate to advanced Russian speakers to deepen their familiarity with this particular subset of the language. I would love to have many more books like this one. Highly recommended.

Good Russian stories in original language plus english
~ Written on Jul 31, 2008. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

This book is an excellent collection of classic Russian short stories in the original language plus and English translation. Couldn't ask for anything better.

I have two copies and bought one for my friend
~ Written on Jun 10, 2008. 2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.

you can make this as easy or as challenging as you like. You learn words when they keep popping up in the stories

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