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A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.Leskov is the strangest the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller, " in which Benjamin contrast the plotty machinations of the modern novel with...

A strange and tragic story by one of the best Russian storytellers - a beautifully and powerfully written drama of misguided people brought together at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and for all the wrong reasons.

Tsar Alexander I of Russia, while visiting England with his servant Platov is shown a number of impressive modern inventions. Platov insists that things in Russia are much better but then they are shown a mechanical flea as small as a crumb with a key to wind it up that can only be seen through a microscope. Nicolas orders Platov to find a Russian to beat the English at this game and Platov travels to Tula to find a gunsmith to do the job.This...

Katerina is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.Leskov's wrote the novella in the Kiev university's punishment room. He described how his hair stood on end as he worked on it alone in that cold plac...

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A selection of stories by the 19th century Russian author, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translator of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Nikolai Leskov's writing exploded the conventions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Here is the other Russia, mythical and untamed: an uneasy synthesis of Orthodoxy and Old Believers, a land populated by soldiers and monks, serfs and princes, Tartars and gypsies-a vast country brimming with the promise of magic.These seventeen tales, some rooted in the oral tradition, others cast as sophisticated anecdotes, are all told in the voices of s...

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Escrita al modo de un cuento tradicional ruso, y dotada de una comicidad, de un descaro y de una frescura inigualables, esta nouvelle, cuyo título completo podría ser traducido como Relato sobre el zurdo bizco de Tula y la pulga de acero es todo un clásico de la literatura occidental. Cuando el Zar Alejandro visita Inglaterra acompañado de su fiel general, el cosaco del Don Platov, los ingleses, para impresionarle, le regalan un minúsculo autó...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for a Count, Ivan accidentally causes the death of a monk, which leads to his being ostracized by the local peasantry . . . until the dead monk returns a...

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