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Six Russian Short Novels. Randall Jarrell (Editor) 4.20. 5 ratings1 review. 361 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1963. Book details & editions. About the author. Randall Jarrell. 108 books81 followers. Follow.
4 nov 2021 · While perhaps lesser-known, these six novellas and short stories are an excellent introduction to Russian literature, touching on deep, universal questions while also delivering a mesmerizing story. After reading a couple of these works, you may well hanker to dive into the bigger tomes after all.
- Alexander Pushkin “The Shot”, 1830
- Nikolai Gogol “Old World Landowners”, 1835
- Ivan Turgenev “Mumu”, 1852
- Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree”, 1876
- Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, 1886
- Anton Chekhov “Ward No. 6”, 1892
- Maxim Gorky “Chelkash”, 1895
- Alexander Kuprin “Olesya”, 1898
- Mikhail Bulgakov “Morphine”, 1927
- Ivan Bunin “Clean Monday”, 1944
Reading time: 40 minutes After reading this tale, you will forever stop offending others without good reason. After all, payback time will come one day – and at the happiest moment of your life when you are least prepared. This is the story of former officer Silvio, who lives in a small town and harbors some kind of secret. Plus he’s an excellent s...
Reading time: 45 minutes Even if you could find a quiet place to escape the troubles of modern life, and live there peacefully with your other half, death will still come and get you. That’s the optimistic message to take from this tale. Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulkheria Ivanovna are a good-hearted, childless old couple, very tender to each other, wh...
Reading time: 55 minutes Although slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1863, and in Russia in 1861, there are still slaves in today’s world. What if you yourself were a slave? And some stupid, cantankerous owner ruled your fate? And gave away your sweetheart to another man and made you drown your beloved dog...? This is the story of Gerasim, a deaf...
Reading time: 11 minutes After reading this story, you will never be able to ignore child beggars again. It features the familiar Dostoevskian theme of poor orphans trying to survive in a cold, indifferent St Petersburg. The story tells the tale of a boy who is forced to beg for alms even in the most terrible cold. If he doesn’t get anything, he wi...
Reading time: 2 hours To paraphrase a character from Master and Margarita, the drama of man is not that he is mortal, but that his mortality sometimes arrives very suddenly. And until it does, no one is aware of it. This story will make you remember that death could be waiting for you on the next step of the escalator (we hope it isn’t). Tolstoy de...
Reading time: 2 hours Are you sure you’re not crazy? And that there’s a clear dividing line between you and someone incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital? Read this and you’ll start to have doubts. Andrey Ragin is a town doctor who visits an asylum for the mentally ill, where the conditions are inhumane. But the doctor is in no hurry to rectify th...
Reading time: 1 hour Chelkash is a free-spirited thief who prowls the Black Sea port of Odessa. Through his complex and dangerous relationship with a greedy peasant boy in need of money, whom he uses as an accomplice in a smuggling operation, his own nature is revealed. When the story was published, Gorky, the eulogizer-in-chief of the proletariat,...
Reading time: 2.5 hours Do you think loving someone is about going to cafes and vacationing by the sea? Are you ready to protect your loved one from the hands of an angry mob? And how would you stay safe afterwards? On duty, the young Ivan arrives in a remote village. One day, like in a fairy tale, he gets lost in the forest and stumbles upon a hut...
Reading time: 50 minutes A dizzying, destructive tale about the perils of drug addiction from the man who gave us the above-mentioned phantasmagorical Master and Margarita. A young doctor (Bulgakov, like Chekhov, was a medical man) finds the diary of a colleague who has shot himself. In it, the man describes how he was left by his beloved woman and...
Reading time: 25 minutes Look closely at your beloved. The one you adore most in all the world seems cold and fickle, but you hope to tame her in the course of time. Dream on! Tomorrow she will be totally out of reach. The story is replete with undertones of light erotica. The mysterious lover of a young man does not want to make plans for the futu...
Six Russian Short Novels (1963) di Randall Jarrell ( A cura di ), Anton Chekhov , Nikolai Gogol , Nikolai Leskov , Leo Tolstoy — 1 altro , Ivan Turgenev Utenti
Six Russian Short Novels (1963) by Randall Jarrell (Editor), Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Leo Tolstoy — 1 more, Ivan Turgenev
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12 mar 2012 · 1 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin. 2 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov. 3 Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy. 4 About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov. 5 The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel. What first got you interested in Russian literature?
