The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
10 best books like The Dragon: Fifteen Stories (Yevgeny Zamyatin): Месяц в деревне, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories, Memories of the Future, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home, The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose, Conquered City, The Galosh: And Other Stories
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 1853993204 |
راستش فکر نمی کردم این اثر، چنین دلنشین غافلگیرم کند
امروز قرار بود که فقط به یکسری از کارهایم که مثلا از قبل برنامه ریزی کرده بودم برسم ....اما می بینید؟...
| Author | Anna Kavan |
| ISBN | 0393302849 |
‘Whatever I am, I’m among the lost things—I do know that.’
To enter the works of Anna Kavan is to enter a swirling, menacing reality where inexorable doom weighs heavy through each word. Each story in Julia and the Bazooka is comprised of a thinly-fictionalized version of Kavan’s...
| Author | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| ISBN | 1590173198 |
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room;...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0811213943 |
An anthology of eight short stories by the critically acclaimed young Russian novelist. The writing is colloquial and often whimsical, and many of the stories take supernatural phenomena very much for granted, as with the werewolves of the title story, or another in which the protagonist discovers...
| Author | Anna Akhmatova |
| ISBN | 1438234732 |
Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966) is considered by many to be one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age. Her works range from short lyric love poetry to longer, more complex cycles, such as Requiem, a tragic depiction of the Stalinist terror. One of the forefront leaders of the Acmeism...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0441801811 |
From one of science fiction's newest, brightest talents - a collection of worlds of wit and wonder demanding only that you be ready for them, including:
AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE -
Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the...
| 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...
| 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 | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 0904613518 |
1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. Conquered City, Victor Serge’s most unrelenting...
| Author | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| ISBN | 1585676314 |
In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoschenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920's and `30s, beset by an acute housing shortage, ubiquitous...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0141442239 |
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0226300684 |
Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings...
| Author | Mieko Kanai |
| ISBN | 1564785661 |
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction—the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things...
Highly praised anthology of 100 years of Finnish literary fantasy. The latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness and diversity of the stories reflects...
| Author | Robert Shearman |
| ISBN | 1905583141 |
Analyzing the complexity, absurdity, and blessedness of seemingly ordinary people, this debut collection examines the metaphysical assumptions surrounding death. From the end of a relationship to the meaning behind its title, this anthology continually surprises and subverts, utilizing topics...
| Author | Antony Pogorelsky |
| ISBN | 1894965035 |
"Black Chicken or Underground Inhabitants" is a book by Anatolii Pogorelskii. This book is probably one of the most sad and touching tales for children in Russian literature, and even though it was written a long time ago in 1829, magical and mysterious plot about a little boy Alex and his favorite...
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 0394577981 |
A collection of thirteen short stories translated from the Russian. The author is distantly related to Tolstoy (a great-grand-niece).
In Loves Me, Loves Me Not, two little girls reflect back on their ugly nanny and how much they hated her.
In Sweet Shura, a woman in her late 80’s...
| Author | Andrei Platonov |
| ISBN | 0940322331 |
This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn ("Soul"), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The...
| Author | Lucius Shepard |
| ISBN | 0870541617 |
Lucius Shepard's short fiction ranges far and wide over the field of SF and fantasy, and is crammed with show-stopper ideas and an intense originality. The Ends of the Earth is a testimonial to a genius of the genre, and a major American writer. Winner of the 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Contents:
The...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 1597801844 |
Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries — these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through...
