Twentieth-Century Russian Novel

David Gillespie Lecturer in Russian,University of Bath

• Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this important new guide for students. Works include: -We by Evgenii Zamiatin -Red Cavalry by Isaak Babel -Envy by Iurii Olesha -How the Steel was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovskii -The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak -Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov

'Gillespie has managed to pack in a disproportionately large amount of informative comment. Accessible and incisive, this example of critical analysis makes one want to re-read these works which have become modern classics.'British East-West Journal' ... informative, well balanced and presented very clearly. ... user-friendly.'The Slavonic Review'Every department involved in teaching a course on the Russian novel will be grateful to David Gillespie for this concise and admirably clear analysis...each textual analysis is presented in a soothingly succinct, sophisticated yet accessible way, with critical jargon kept to a minimum; points of style are well illustrated. ...This book will be invaluable to the student'Slavonica'This book will certainly go on the compulsory reading lists for next year.'Irish Slavonic Review