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Greatest Russian Short Stories
SHOWCASING BELOVED TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Discover the highs and lows of human experience through masterpieces such as
• Alexander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades, which explores avarice with superhuman elements
• Ignatiy Potapenko’s The Curse of Fame, rife with the pathos that forms an integral part of our lives
• Anton Chekov’s The Slanderer, depicting how people can fall victim to their own minds
• Nikolai Gogol’s The Cloak, an evocative work on the isolation and dissatisfaction that runs rampant in society
and many more...
Featuring masters of the genre, such as Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky, Greatest Russian Short Stories is a vividly engaging collection to be treasured for a lifetime
Discover the highs and lows of human experience through masterpieces such as
• Alexander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades, which explores avarice with superhuman elements
• Ignatiy Potapenko’s The Curse of Fame, rife with the pathos that forms an integral part of our lives
• Anton Chekov’s The Slanderer, depicting how people can fall victim to their own minds
• Nikolai Gogol’s The Cloak, an evocative work on the isolation and dissatisfaction that runs rampant in society
and many more...
Featuring masters of the genre, such as Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky, Greatest Russian Short Stories is a vividly engaging collection to be treasured for a lifetime
316 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2016
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January 21, 2020
"… and it seemed to him that he had destroyed forever the former charm of the woman, that she, whom he had loved, had never been beautiful; and it seemed to him, that now only he saw her in her real light, and that she only became divinely beautiful, when lighted by the bright rays of his love. "
— Stephan Skitalitz (1869 - 1941), closing lines of “The Love of a Scene-Painter“
"What kind of a husband is he ! All you see of him is his dressing-gown on the peg"
— Evgeny Chirikov (1864 - 1922), from “Faust”
— Stephan Skitalitz (1869 - 1941), closing lines of “The Love of a Scene-Painter“
"What kind of a husband is he ! All you see of him is his dressing-gown on the peg"
— Evgeny Chirikov (1864 - 1922), from “Faust”
March 13, 2020
Interesting read!
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