Best Russian Short Stories (Xist Classics) Kindle Edition
by A.S. Rushkin (Author), N.V. Gogol (Author), & 3 more Format: Kindle Edition
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This collection contains:
THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. Pushkin
THE CLOAK N.V. Gogol
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. Turgenev
THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. Dostoyevsky
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS L.N. Tolstoy
HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS M.Y. Saltykov
THE SHADES, A PHANTASY V.G. Korolenko
THE SIGNAL V.N. Garshin
THE DARLING A.P. Chekhov
THE BET A.P. Chekhov
VANKA A.P. Chekhov
HIDE AND SEEK F.K. Sologub
DETHRONED I.N. Potapenko
THE SERVANT S.T. Semyonov
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT M. Gorky
HER LOVER M. Gorky
LAZARUS L.N. Andreyev
THE REVOLUTIONIST M.P. Artzybashev
THE OUTRAGE A.I. Kuprin
235 pages
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English
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The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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ASIN : B01D3K18VS
Publisher : Xist Classics (17 March 2016)
Language : English
File size : 844 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 235 pages
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First girl
2.0 out of 5 stars Strange layout
Reviewed in the United States on 20 August 2018
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My problem with the book is not the content so much as the layout. There is no table of contents. Headings for story title and author can be at the end of one page and the story begins on the next. It is difficult to find where a story begins and ends. The print is quite small. I'm sure this has been done to keep costs down, but it is hard to navigate through the book and to see exactly what you have purchased. There is no copyright page that I can find and the publisher is missing. There is a lengthy introduction which I quit reading after several pages so I could find the stories. Perhaps there is a better explanation of this oddly-laid-out book. I'd be interested to read what others have to say about this. I found it frustrating disappointing.
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tony from Philly
5.0 out of 5 stars Russians understand the vanity of life as Solomon did.
Reviewed in the United States on 16 January 2015
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There is an episode of "The Sopranos" where Tony is on the sofa drinking vodka with the one legged beautiful girl named Svetlana. He tells her how much he admires her courage and outlook on life, because even though she has suffered a cruel amputation she remains not only physically attractive but cheerful. She then says to him "That's the trouble with you Americans. You always expect things to be good, and when they are not good, you are disappointed and miserable. We Russians never expect anything to turn out good. That way we are never disappointed, and if per chance something turns out good-well, that is an unexpected benefit." Until you understand this simple Russian outlook on life, you will never appreciate the Russian style of literature. Unlike American writers who always have a fantasy "happily ever after" ending, the Russian knows and is not afraid to admit that often life stinks and then you die. Russian literature is not for escape from reality, but rather confronting reality. Reading these short stories, and other Russian literature from the large volume "War And Peace", "Anna Karinina", "Doctor Zhivago" etc. to the vast volumes of poetry, to these delightful short stories gives us an intricate look into the minds of the Russian people. They have, perhaps more successfully than any other people group in the world, managed to deal with life's struggles as though they are expected, rather than unplanned. I suppose that's why they could lose 20 million people in WW2, and defeat the Nazi war machine while the citizens lived on bread made from sawdust and human flesh that froze to death during the sieges of Leningrad, and Stalingrad. These stories will give the average American an idea as to why the Russians do not cringe when the USA becomes threatening as other nations do. These people are tough and not only do they not fear hardship-they expect it!
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Regina Schlochauer
5.0 out of 5 stars The list of contents is faulty and not user friendly. It jjust lists chapters and pages without thr name of the authors and the name of the tales and the authors. You vannot choose. You guess and trusts luck you will like the story
Reviewed in the United States on 13 May 2018
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Luck chooses.. It has to be much clearer. This magnificent collection of sheer talent can not be squeezed by poor editorial or grahic presentation of the list of stories and ITS authors. I want to be able to choose which story and which authors when I wish to read It.
A apresentação com índice sem mostrar claramente os autores e o nome de cada conto dificulta e desanima o leitores mesmo o ferrenho como eu. Quero ler o autor que escolha e o conto que eu escolha. Não só o conto 7 do autor 6....
Isto acontece em outras antologias de clássicos que não são de interesse do grande público. Deve ser uma contrapartida para com os que tem gosto nestas velharias , monumentos da literatura mas desinteressantes para o comércio editorial.
Mas eu gostaria de saber se posso ESCOLHER ler Gogol ou Gor
Ki . No caso dos francês ,o mesmo . Quem é quando é qual ?
Anyway thank yoi foi giving me this possibility of Reading whatever author and language I want even If in not só well cared as editorial presentation. One wants to haver the name ol the author and the nameof the tale or story.
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Cory Briggs
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2018
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This is a anthology of short stories from note worthy Russian authors. Some are humorous, some are thought provoking, all of them give you a glimpse of Russian life at earlier times. One common thread that ran through all of the stories was the absence of the "happy ever after" ending . There is strong, sometimes brutal honesty to these stories. The only story I didn't like was "Lazarus" because the author didn't the power of such a ressurection.
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Timothy Marvin Coplin
5.0 out of 5 stars Russian Lit need not be laborious
Reviewed in the United States on 9 October 2020
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Only a couple stories which I found uninteresting; for the most part, a collection of truly magnificent stories. Russian literature need not be laborious. Try it in short story form and see what you've been missing.
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