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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

ISBN: 9780140448467 | 0140448462
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 7/25/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This original anthology of short stories covers two centuries of Russian literary tradition, from the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, and includes not only well-known classics but also modern masterpieces—many of them previously censored.
Chronologyix
Introductionxi
Further Readingxv
Note on the Translationsxviii
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
The Queen of Spades
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5(23)
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
The Fatalist
28(10)
NIKOLAY GOGOL
The Greatcoat
38(29)
IVAN TURGENEV
The Knocking
67(14)
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Bobok
81(17)
COUNT LEV TOLSTOY
God Sees the Truth, but Waits
98(10)
NIKOLAY LESKOV
The Steel Flea
108(30)
ANTON CHEKHOV
In the Cart
138(10)
LIDIYA ZINOVYEVAANNIBAL
The Monster
148(12)
IVAN BUNIN
The Gentleman from San Francisco
160(19)
In Paris
179(10)
TEFFI
Love
189(5)
A Family Journey
194(7)
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
The Lion
201(7)
SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY
Quadraturin
208(9)
VERA INBER
Lalla's Interests
217(6)
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
The Embroidered Towel
223(13)
ISAAK BABEL
My First Goose
236(3)
The Death of Dolgushov
239(3)
Salt
242(5)
MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO
Electrification
247(2)
Pelageya
249(2)
The Bathhouse
251(2)
The Crisis
253(3)
The Galosh
256(2)
The Hat
258(3)
LEONID DOBYCHIN
Medical Auxiliary
261(1)
The Father
262(2)
Please Do
264(4)
ANDREY PLATONOV
The Third Son
268(5)
The Return
273(24)
DANIIL KHARMS
The Old Woman
297(23)
VARLAM SHALAMOV
Through the Snow
320(1)
Berries
320(3)
The Snake Charmer
323(5)
Duck
328(5)
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
What a Pity
333(7)
VASILY SHUKSHIN
In the Autumn
340(10)
ASAR EPPEL
Red Caviar Sandwiches
350(13)
SERGEY DOVLATOV
The Officer's Belt
363(12)
YURY BUIDA
Sindbad the Sailor
375(4)
Note on Names379(1)
Note on Ranks380(2)
Notes382(12)
Acknowledgements394
Robert Chandler has translated Sappho, Apollinaire, and Pushkin.


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