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For the uninitiated English Lit major this book along with Nabokov's Lecture's on Literature are indispensable reading, indispensable because Nabokov, unlike a slew of scholars working in the field today, has very specific views with regards to what literature is and what it is not.

For western people Russia still seems too exotic to distinguish details. By this cause "Russian Literature" often is heard as something like "Japan theatre". This book is true guide into most developed Russian art represented with 3 greate (Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov) and 3 other popular (Dostoyevskiy, Turgenev, Gorkiy) writers.
If you are interesting into souvenirs you don't need to read these lectures. But if you usually read Dickens or Joyce and want to continue your investigations then Nabokov's guide is what you exactly want. It is not for tourists. Keyword is not Russia, but Literature.