The Portable Russian Reader Author:Bernard Guilbert Guerney, ed. "The aim has been to include a generous amount of humor, satire, and folk material not usually presented in English. The collection shuns the conventional emphasis on what Mr. Guerney calls "the mysterious Slav Soul and melancholy double-talk . . ." Instead he has included his own favorites, and the favorites of the Russian people." Pre-Revolu... more »tionary selections include folk satire and short stories as well as Pushkin, Gogol, and Turgenev. Post-Revolutionary selections include Gorki, Babel, and Ehrenburg. Also a selection of letters and proverbs.« less