Couverture / Jaquette

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian Stories. The short story is a fundamental part of the greatness of Russian literature. Each work of fiction in the Book is an acknowledged classic of Russian literature; including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Leo Tolstoy; Anton Chekhov; Maxim Gorky; Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Gogol; Ivan S Turgenev; The Stories here offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature. This volume contains; The Queen Of Spades By Alexander Pushkin; The Cloak By Nikolai Gogol; The District Doctor By Ivan S. Turgenev; The Christmas Tree And The Wedding by Fyodor Dostoevsky; God Sees The Truth, But Waits By Leo Tolstoy; How A Muzhik Fed Fed Two Officials By Mikhial Saltykov-Shchedrin; Banquet Given by The Mayor; The Shades, A Phantasy By Vladimir G. Korolenko; The Signal By Vsevolod M. Garshin; The Darling By Anton P. Chekhov; The Bet By Anton P. Chekhov; Vanka By Anton P. Chekhov; Hide And Seek By Fyodor Sologub; Dethroned By Ignaty N. Potapenko; The Servant By Sergey T. Semyonov; One Autumn Night By Maxim Gorky; Her Lover By Maxim Gorky; Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev; The Revolutionist By Mikhail P. Artsybashev; The Outrage-A True Story By Aleksandr I. Kuprin.

Note biographique

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913-1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). Other Authors are also prominent Authors.

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