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Title: An Outline of Russian Literature
Author: Maurice Baring
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HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE
AN OUTLINE
OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
By the Hon. MAURICE BARING
LONDON
WILLIAMS & NORGATE
HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK
CANADA: RYERSON PRESS, TORONTO
INDIA: R. & T. WASHBOURNE, LTD.
HOME
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
OF
MODERN KNOWLEDGE
_Editors:_
HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D.
Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A.
Prof. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D.
Prof. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.
(Columbia University, U.S.A.)
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
AN OUTLINE OF
RUSSIAN
LITERATURE
BY THE HON.
MAURICE BARING
AUTHOR OF "WITH THE RUSSIANS IN
MANCHURIA," "A YEAR IN RUSSIA," "THE
RUSSIAN PEOPLE," ETC.
LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
_First printed 1914/15_
PREFACE
The chief difficulty which Englishmen have experienced in writing
about Russia has, up till quite lately, been the prevailing ignorance
of the English public with regard to all that concerns Russian
affairs. A singularly intelligent Ru
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