Edition details
Russian Short Stories. Introduced by John Bayley. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. Bound in blocked cloth. The Queen of Spades by Pushkin, Alexander. The Overcoat by Gogol, Nikolai. Taman by Lermontov, Mikhail. The Song of Triumphant Love by Turgenev, Ivan. The Honest Thief by Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Wild Squire by N. Shchedrin. The Raid by Tolstoy, Leo. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Leskov, Nikolai. The Murmuring Forest by Korolenko, Vladimir. The Red Flower by Garshin, Vsevolod. The Kiss by Chekhov, Anton. Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Gorky, Maxim. The Gentleman from San Francisco by Bunin, Ivan. The Death of Romelink by Grin, Alexander. The Cave by Zamyatin, Yevgeny. Aerial Ways by Pasternak, Boris. The Murderer by Bulgakov, Mikhail. How It Was Done in Odessa by Babel, Isaac. Lyalka Fifty by Babel, Isaac. A Russian Beauty by Nabokov, Vladimir. Matryona's Home by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. 25 x 17 cm. 386pp.
About the book
Russian Short Stories brings together fiction from the great Russian literary tradition, showcasing the remarkable strength of the short-story form in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. The stories range from social satire and psychological realism to tragedy and the absurd. Through concise narratives and sharply observed characters, they explore poverty, love, bureaucracy, morality and the complexities of everyday life.