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And Other Stories, by Nikolai S. Leskov
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"Based on a true story of an early Russian missionary bishop's trip to the far reaches of Eastern Siberia, Nicolai Leskov (1831-1895), the master of h...
"Stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom o...
Being the Tale of Cross-Eyed Lefty of Tula and the Steel Flea
Styled as a folk tale, Lefty tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula (traditionally a center of the Russian armaments industry) who ou...
A Sketch
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of...
A Chronicle
"Nikolay Leskov, a contemporary of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, has remained largely unknown in the West. A master storyteller and connoisseur of language,...
And Other Stories
Being the Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty of Tula and the Steel Flea
The most perfectly 'Russian' writer of the nineteenth century, Leskov conveys a unique, memorable image of the Russia he knew: wayward and undisciplin...
Leskov was Chekhov's favorite writer and was greatly admired by Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. His short stories--innovative in form, richly playful in lang...
Selected Tales
Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love,...
Lord Radstock and His Followers
Lord Radstock was an English Christian evangelist who caused a considerable stir in Russian society in the mid-1870s. That a significant number of ver...