This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Russia.
For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:
Nikolai Gogol:
— The Nose
— The Viy
— The Cloak
— Old-Fashioned Farmers
— The Overcoat
— Memoirs of a Madman
— The Mysterious Portrait Anton Chekhov:
— The Lady With The Little Dog
— Ward No. 6
— A Joke
— The Darling
— Kashtanka
— The Black Monk
— In The Ravinein the ravien Fyodor Dostoevsky:
— White Nights
— An Honest Thief
— The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
— Notes From Underground
— The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
— A Little Hero
— Mr. Prohartchin
Leo Tolstoy:
— God Sees the Truth, But Waits
— Papa Panov’s Special Christmas
— Three Questions
— Work, Death and Sickness A Legend
— How Much Land Does a Man Needs?
— The Death of Ivan Ilyich
— Alyosha the Pot
Valery Bryusov:
— The Republic of the Southern Cross.
— The Marble Bust.
— For Herself or for Another.
— In the Mirror.
— Protection.
— The ‘Bemol’ Shop of Stationery.
— Rhea Silvia.
Об авторе
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (13 December 1873 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.