This selection represents the best of pre-Revolutionary Russian literature, includes stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Korolenko, Chehov, Maxim Gorky, and others. Human aspiration and social improvement elevate these stories enlivened by an idiomatic sense of comedy; this edition also allows readers to discover the delightful narrative skills of little-known writers such as Korolenko, Kupin and Chirinov.
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
J.M. Dent & Sons
Release
May 15, 1992
ISBN
0460871641
ISBN 13
9780460871648
Russian Short Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper))
This selection represents the best of pre-Revolutionary Russian literature, includes stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Korolenko, Chehov, Maxim Gorky, and others. Human aspiration and social improvement elevate these stories enlivened by an idiomatic sense of comedy; this edition also allows readers to discover the delightful narrative skills of little-known writers such as Korolenko, Kupin and Chirinov.