This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Plays: The Inspector General: A Comedy in Five Acts Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: Introduction The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Essays: On Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps Russian National Character as Shown in Russian Fiction
Nearly every author of note has turned their hand to it at some point in their career. This volume contains a broad selection of authors and styles in the original language, including Chekhov, Tolstoy, Gogol and more.
Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the...
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture.
An All Time Favorite Collection from the Renowned Russian dramatists and Writers (Including Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists) Anton Chekhov, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, ...
This collection includes some of his most memorable stories, including The Huntsman, The Lady with the Dog, About Love, and The Black Monk. These stories will give you a glimpse into his greatness and a taste of his incomparable style.
Forever united, forever parted, they flashed like sparks, and like sparks went out in boundless darkness. Lazarus came to a proud sage, and the sage said to him: "I already know all the horrors that you may tell me, Lazarus.
From the golden age of Russian theater: The Inspector General by Gogol; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Gorky's The Lower Depths; and A Month in the Country by Turgenev.
This book is a collection of Nineteen selected stories by the renowned Russian authors.
—There is the burning campion. —And violets. —Don't touch; don't touch the flowers, girls. Her kisses are upon them. Don't throw them on the floor, girls. Her breath is upon them. Don't blow them away with your breath.
Greatest Russian Short Stories