Clarence Brown`s marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely`s Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov`s The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak`s Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov`s A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha`s 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.