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Andreev: Selected Stories
• Introduction
• Fifteen classic stories by Leonid Andreyev, specially chosen for this collection
• Biographical and critical essays from Serge Persky and William Lyon Phelps
• Illustrated throughout by brand new abstract images designed to compliment the evocative tone of the pieces.
A Russian titan, Leonid Andreyev stands as a colossus alongside the many giants of his country’s literary lineage. Selected for this collection are many of his finest short stories. A practitioner in the darkest recesses of the human heart and imagination, his tales delve the wretched depths of madness and horror. In mesmerising fashion Andreyev visits the prison cell, the public execution, the diseased family home, and the nightmare of natural catastrophe. A writer of immense power, unflinching and unrelenting, Leonid Andreyev has left us the beneficiaries of his incendiary work. Some of which is included in this volume.
Stories included in this
The City
A Story Which Will Never Be Finished
The Friend
Love, Faith and Hope
The Tocsin
Silence
Life of Father Vassily
The Serpent’s Story
Lazarus
Judas Iscariot
Ben-Tobith
When the King Loses His Head
Dies Irie
The Man Who Found the Truth
Stepping-Stones
• Fifteen classic stories by Leonid Andreyev, specially chosen for this collection
• Biographical and critical essays from Serge Persky and William Lyon Phelps
• Illustrated throughout by brand new abstract images designed to compliment the evocative tone of the pieces.
A Russian titan, Leonid Andreyev stands as a colossus alongside the many giants of his country’s literary lineage. Selected for this collection are many of his finest short stories. A practitioner in the darkest recesses of the human heart and imagination, his tales delve the wretched depths of madness and horror. In mesmerising fashion Andreyev visits the prison cell, the public execution, the diseased family home, and the nightmare of natural catastrophe. A writer of immense power, unflinching and unrelenting, Leonid Andreyev has left us the beneficiaries of his incendiary work. Some of which is included in this volume.
Stories included in this
The City
A Story Which Will Never Be Finished
The Friend
Love, Faith and Hope
The Tocsin
Silence
Life of Father Vassily
The Serpent’s Story
Lazarus
Judas Iscariot
Ben-Tobith
When the King Loses His Head
Dies Irie
The Man Who Found the Truth
Stepping-Stones
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First published January 1, 1969
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