If you have ever read the great novels of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy or Turgenev for example, or enjoyed the poetry of Pushkin, plays by Chekhov or the satire of Gogol and would like to enrich your knowledge of these and other Russian authors who also lent their gifts to the writing of short stories, this is the SDG for you.  We will use the Penguin Classic Edition of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida as our primary text along with online stories from Project Gutenberg.org. The curriculum includes stories concerning issues as varied as fate and free will, God, love, social hierarchies, satire, the depth of human suffering and more.

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