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Anna Karenina 2e

Meet the Editor

George Gibian is Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He is the author of The Man in the Black Coat: Russia’s Lost Literature of the Absurd, The Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature During the Thaw, and Tolstoj and Shakespeare. He is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and Gogol’s Dead Souls, and of The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Professor Gibian’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among others.