Werkhaupt G., Roller Ed. Russian Reader with Exercises of Conversation

London: David Nutt, 1902. — iv, 124 p.This Manual of Russian Readings and Conversations by Mss. Werkhaupt and Roller, is the English edition of Mr. Werkhaupt’s: Russisches Konversations-Lesebuch. It contains a collection of pieces taken from Russian standard authors. The conversational exercises are in close connection with them, both for the contents and for the words employed. Each reading exercise, the words of which are carefully accentuated, is preceded by a list of the necessary words with their English significations. The students are recommended to learn by heart these words before proceding to the reading-exercises. As this book is chiefly meant for the use of beginners, who will be sure to encounter difficulties in studying a language so very different from their own, the authors have thought it advisable to add a translation to each piece, which will also facilitate the necessary grammatical exercises. As these translations are as literal as possible, of course they cannot aim at elegance.The alphabetic vocabulary at the end of this volume gives the pronunciation of each word for those who are obliged to avail themselves of our book without the help of a teacher. /Is the Russian pronunciation differs in many points from that of any other modern language, it would have been impossible, to employ one of the current systems to mark the pronunciation, or to adapt it to the use of the Russian language. The author of this English edition has therefore been obliged to invent a proper system. Of course this system could not be meant for a study of the phonetic subtilities of the Russian language: the author’s chief object has been the greatest possible simplicity; and he has therefore restricted himself to the absolutely necessary.СодержаниеПрозаПотёмкин, Пушкина
Багратион, его же
Суворов, Иловайского
Неловкое положение, Пушкина
Учёный сын, Толстого
Слепой и молоко, его же
Утро в Пятигорске, Лермонтова
Буран, Пушкина
Пётр I и Людовик XIV. Карамзина
Державин, Пушкина
Выстрел, его жеПоэзияОсёл и Соловей, Крылова
Орел и Пчела, его же
Лесной царь, Жуковского
Кавказ, Пушкина
Чёрная шаль, его же
Черкесская песня, его же
Казачья колыбельная песнь, Лермонтова
Пророк, его же
Из Гёте, его же
Последние цветы, Пушкина
Слёзы матери, Некрасова* * *ProsePotemkin, by Pushkin
Bagration, by the same
Souwarow, by Iloxvalsky
A painful situation, by Pushkin
The learned son, by L. Tolstoi
The blind man and the milk, by the same
A morning at Piatigorsk, by Lermontoff
The snow-storm, by Pushkin
Peter I and Louis XIV, by Karamzin
Dershavin, by Pushkin
The shot, by the samePoetryThe ass and the nightingale, by Kryloff
The eagle and the bee, by the same
The king of woods, by Jukowsky
The Caucasus, by Pushkin
The black shawl, by the same
Tscherkessian song, by the same
Cossack’s lullaby, by Lermontoff
The prophet, by the same
From Goethe, by the same
The last flowers, by Pushkin
The mother’s tears, by Nekrassoff