Product Description
Great Russian Short Stories. 20th century Russian literature was profoundly realistic, and injected characters with human weaknesses, that were familiar to all. Important concepts such as existentialism and even passive resistance, such as was was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The twelve powerful short stories in this collection are excellent examples of writing by the foremost authors from Russia's Golden Age of Literature.
Included are "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin, "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol, "The District Doctor" by Ivan S. Turgenev, "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy, "The Clothesmender" by Nicholay Leskov, "The Signal" by Vsevolod M. Garshin, "The Lady with the Toy Dog" by Anton Chekhov, "The White Mother" by Theodor Sologub, "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Maxim Gorky, "The Outrage — A True Story" by Aleksandr I. Kuprin, and "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev.
An original Dover Books selection. Edited by Paul Negri. Paperback, 208 pages. For ages 14 and up.
