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The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

10 best books like The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Anton Chekhov): The Eternal Husband and Other Stories, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, Demon, Asya, The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Black Snow, Red Cavalry and Other Stories

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0553214446
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range...
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
AuthorVladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN0253201896
Have you seen
a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!

The five stars are for the poetry. the play is a satire which endures because of its all too human kernel. The verse is loud, a clamoring. Metallic. I appreciate a verb like shock in this instance. Current is also a valuable word when considering...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0140449078
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
Demon
AuthorMikhail Lermontov
ISBN1853993166
Where the land knows no time
where bonfires have no end,
and doomed shadows often tend
to mutter songs that poorly rhyme,

there lies the Demon, another prey of his kingdom.

and one by one the ages passed,
as minute follows after minute,
each one monotonously...
Asya
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN1594919992
Tolstoy considered Asya, written in 1858, one of Turgenev's two best stories, along with First Love. Asya is a tragic story of two Russians abroad who are in love but conceal it from each other. Constance Garrett and Isabel Hapgood translated Asya in antiquated style approximately 100 years ago. Despite...
The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories
AuthorAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN1410102351
Stories contained in this volume: Moloch, Olesya, Night Duty, The White Poodle, I Was An Actor, The Gambrinus Emerald, The Garnet Bracelet. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
AuthorRobert Chandler
ISBN0140448462
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,...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0140448128
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...
Black Snow
AuthorMikhail Bulgakov
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...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Babel
ISBN0140449973
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...
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0140446753
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. "The Tales of Belkin", his first prose...
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
AuthorIvan Bunin
ISBN0140185526
A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorClarence Brown
ISBN0142437573
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and...
Nervous People and Other Satires
AuthorMikhail Zoshchenko
ISBN0253201926
Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." His devices are...
Happy Moscow
AuthorAndrei Platonov
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphal­ism and the harsh reality of low living standards and...
Master and Man and Other Stories
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0140449620
The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy’s artistic prowess displayed over five decades— experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. “The Two Hussars,” inspired by his time in the army, contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited...
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