Essays on Russian Novelists

"Essays on Russian Novelists" by William Lyon Phelps is a study of prominent Russian writers and their impact on literature. The collection, penned in the early 1900s, focuses on realism in Russian literature. It looks at the cultural and historical events that gave us writers like Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi. The book looks at how Russia's story, full of suffering, identity, and intellect, is woven into their books. The author introduces how Russia's place in the world was affected by the Japanese War. Phelps then shows how Russian books moved from romantic ideas to real-life stories, closely studying what makes writers like Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi special. Phelps thinks about how the characters' feelings and thoughts are tied to Russian culture.