Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories
10 best books like Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories (Nikolai Gogol): Collected Stories, Poor Folk and Other Stories, About Love and Other Stories, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Faust, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, Black Snow
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141183454 |
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0140445056 |
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0192802607 |
Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived." This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0140448462 |
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 1843910438 |
who knew turgenev did the supernatural?? well he did. cuz this is. and yet it is still a "real book" despite the presence of haints, although david would most likely be among turgenev's detractors for this.
from the introduction:
this led to a degree of criticism from those of his contemporaries...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 0140448128 |
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140449590 |
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In ?The Cossacks,? Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured Russian whose experiences among the Cossack warriors...
| Author | Daniil Kharms |
| ISBN | 0810115735 |
This book brings together works by two of the outstanding talents of Soviet literature, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. It discloses a little-known tradition of absurdism that persisted during the Stalinist period, a testimony to both the hardiness of the Russian imagination in the face...
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In pre-revolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote some of her finest...
A masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita.
When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801732 |
This volume contains Typhoon, The Secret Sharer, Falk, and Amy Foster. Typhoon, a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while The Secret Sharer excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation...
| Author | Osip Mandelstam |
| ISBN | 0810119285 |
Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figures. Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's...
| Author | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| ISBN | 0226978680 |
Zamyatin is best known for the brilliant dystopian novel We, one of the great classics of science fiction. The Dragon is a collection of fifteen of his short stories (including a 67 page novella) published between 1918 and 1935. It also includes an introduction by the translator, Mirra Ginsburg, and...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
I am still surprised that Solzhenitsyn was such a good writer.
Of these two short novellas I particularly liked the first which out of very unpromising material weaves an elegant and moving story about the confused state of mind likely to have existed here and there in the Soviet Union in 1941. The...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0140449973 |
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish...
| Author | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin |
| ISBN | 0451500458 |
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."
This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded...
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0140450211 |
With the plays in this 1898 collection-Widower's Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession-Shaw challenges his audiences' moral complacency in the face of serious social problems and inequities.Author Bio: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was one of the most prolific writers of the...
