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ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

BY

LEO WIENER

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

In Two Parts

8^o with Photogravure Frontispieces

Part I.⁠—From the Tenth Century to the Close of the Eighteenth Century

Part II.⁠—The Nineteenth Century

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK LONDON

IVÁN SERGYEEVICH TURGÉNEV

“In days of doubt, in days of anguished thought over the fate of my native land, you alone are my staff and my support, O great, mighty, true and free Russian language! Were it not for you how could one help despairing at the sight of what is taking place at home? But it is unthinkable that such a language should not be given to a great nation.”

Turgénev.