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    Greatest Russian Short Stories

    By Jaico Publishing House

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    About this ebook

    Featuring stories by:
    • Leo Tolstoy • Anton Chekov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Nikolai Gogol • Maxim Gorky • Alexander Pushkin and many others

    SHOWCASING BELOVED TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

    Discover the highs and lows of human experience through masterpieces such as
    • Alexander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades, which explores avarice with superhuman elements
    • Ignatiy Potapenko’s The Curse of Fame, rife with the pathos that forms an integral part of our lives
    • Anton Chekov’s The Slanderer, depicting how people can fall victim to their own minds
    • Nikolai Gogol’s The Cloak, an evocative work on the isolation and dissatisfaction that runs rampant in society
    and many more...

    Featuring masters of the genre, such as Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky, Greatest Russian Short Stories is a vividly engaging collection to be treasured for a lifetime.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJaico Publishing House
    Release dateAug 6, 2018
    ISBN9788184959581
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