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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov by Nikolai Leskov; Robert Chandler (Translator); Donald Rayfield (Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story. Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporari ...Show more
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
Category: Classic Fiction
The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for an acclaimed new film starring Florence Pugh Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia, with a fascination for idiosyncra ...Show more
The Enchanted Wanderer by Ian Dreiblatt (Translator); Nikolai Leskov
Category: Classics | Series: The\Art of the Novella Ser.
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 Co ...Show more
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
Category: Classic
Leskov's short stories exploded the traditions of 19th-century Russian fiction. Innovative in form and playful in language, these 17 tales are peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and garrulous storytel ...Show more
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