Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850–1928) was one of the most important American translators and interpreters of Russian literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her Survey of Russian Literature provides an overview of the tradition from its origins through the great 19th-century writers, accompanied by translated selections designed to give English readers direct access to the primary texts.
For anyone wanting a guided introduction to Russian literary history in a single public-domain volume, this free EPUB download is an invaluable resource — scholarly, readable, and historically significant in its own right.