David Magarshack

Ivan Sergejevič Turgenev

Autobiographical in nature, the story centers around a young Russian landowner who falls in love for the first time while visiting Germany.

The Torrents Of Spring

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

Oblomov. Translated and with an Introduction

Mr. David Magarshack's biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky is based on a mass of material that has become available only recently with the publication of the fourth and final volume of his letters and the latest research into the origins of some of the ideas that are closely associated with Dostoevsky's writings. Mr. Magarshack's new biography is valuable for giving a careful and unbiased account of Dostoevsky's private life without over-stepping the bounds rational analysis of the latest available data or indulging in the kind of incantatory hero-worship that has become all too common a feature of some recent studies of Dostoevsky.

Dostoevsky

Chekhov, the Dramatist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Anton Pavlovič Čechov

Chekov the Dramatist

A Life by David Magarshack

Chekhov

A Biography

Pushkin

Chekhov the Dramatist

Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else.

The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil

A Life

Gogol

This classic collection of articles, sketches, and letters spans thirty-three years in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing career: from 1847, just after the publication of his first novel, until 1880, a year before his death. The writings show the scope of his artistic development and the changes that occurred as a result of such cataclysmic events as his arrest and trial for treason, and his subsequent imprisonment and exile in Siberia.

Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings

Konstantin Stanislavsky is one of the colossi not simply of Russian, but American and European theatre. The works of the creator of the Stanislavsky System - which later gave rise to the Method - have tended to shroud him in mystique, leading his followers to revere him as a saint and his detractors to dismiss him out of hand. As Irving Wardle says in his foreword to this edition (1986), David Magarshack's biography - first published in 1950 - offers 'a vigorous, highly readable narrative that succeeds in demystifying the working of the Moscow Art Theatre, and in removing Stanislavsky from his pedestal without cutting him down to size. To his autobiographical writings, Magarshack supplied the companion piece - A Life - and as such it remains unsuperseded.'

Stanislavsky

David Magarshack

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