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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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OBD Best Books of 2021 (BookPage) - Adult
OBD National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) - Adult
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The English-language debut of Anton Chekhov's first collection of mystery and suspense tales. Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov actually began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, Peter Sekirin brings together these psychological suspense stories in a premier collection that provides a fresh look into Chekhov's literary heritage...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A compilation of 41 Anton Chekhov stories, including: "A Living Chattel, "Joy," "At the Barber's," "An Enigmatic Nature," "A Classical Student," "The Death of a Government Clerk," "The Trousseau," "A Daughter of Albion," "An Inquiry," "Fat and Thin," "A Tragic Actor," "The Bird Market," "A Slander," "The Swedish Match," "Choristers," "The Album," "Minds in Ferment," "A Chameleon," and "In The Graveyard."
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time, having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce. In this second collection, Blackstone has compiled fifty-five of his short stories.
Author
Publisher
Alma Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves into a sea of grey mist, in which she starts to discern the beloved features of her fiancé. As in a diorama, the scene keeps changing, and to the early snapshots of joyful marital life succeed other, more...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns-or at once-funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol's vivid, haunting...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous...
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
"In the autumn of 1831, some easter from the Poltava province issued a book under the tantalizing title "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka". The simple-hearted villager, as if in a frightened way, recommended to the enlightened public four fantastic stories allegedly told at gatherings in his modest hut. "This is real gaiety, sincere, unconstrained, without cheating, without being stiff. In some places, what poetry! What sensitivity!" - so welcomed...
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