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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 5th or later Edition. The Complete Reader-Reciter. 770+ pages. Covers and title page illustrations by M. Denisov. 'The Reader-Reciter' by the Kyiv publisher I. I. Samonenko became one of the most popular literary projects of the Silver Age. In addition to the works of famous poets and writers, the volumes of 'The Reader-Reciter' included many publications by Russian and European authors, whose names have faded into obscurity over time. The almanac went through 12 editions from 1902 to 1917, and was published in three or five parts. In most of the latest editions, only the first volumes were published. This bibliographic rarity is an artistic collection of poems, scenes, stories and monologues for reading in divertissements, drama courses, literary evenings, etc. With portraits of writers and artists. Among the authors of the anthology: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Gorky, Balmont, Merezhkovsky, Shchepkina-Kupernik, Nekrasov, Nadson, Bunin, Zhukovsky, Maikov, Krylov, Fet and many others. Almost the entire "golden fund" of Russian literature of the last century. The collections published works by the most famous modern authors - poets and prose writers of the Silver Age, as well as works by classics of Russian literature. Multiple portraits of authors in the text and attractive typographic elements in the form of various vignettes and symbols. No page losses. Several pages attached with tapes. Tears, stains, spine off, owner's monogram stamp, most of pages in very good condition.