Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy

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IVAN PANIN.
PUSHKIN, GOGOL, TURGENEF, TOLSTOY.
NEW YORK & LONDON: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, The Knickerbocker Press. 1889.
Copyright, 1889 ,
By Ivan Panin.
TO MIRIAM

The translations given in this volume, with the exception of the storm-scene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own.
The reader will please bear in mind that these Lectures, printed here exactly as delivered, were written with a view to addressing the ear as well as the eye, otherwise the book would have been entirely different from what it now is.
When delivering the Sixth Lecture, I read extracts from Tolstoy's “My Religion” and “What to Do,” illustrating every position of his I there commend; but for reasons it is needless to state, I omit them in the book. I can only hope that the reader will all the more readily go to the books themselves.