Russian Short Story Collection

The ultimate collection of great short stories by the best Russian classic authors. 1. "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky 2. "The Empty Drum" by Count Leo Tolstoy 3. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub 4. "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev 5. "The White Dog" by Fedor Sologub 6. "The Cloak" by Nikolai Gogol 7. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub 8. "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9. "A Work of Art" by Anton Chekhov 10. "Children Wiser Than Their Fathers" by Count Leo Tolstoy

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Tolstoy; Dostoyevsky; Chekhov; Gogol; Turgenev; and more.

The best collection of Russian short stories includes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Kholstomer, the Story of a Horse, Alyosha the Pot, A Letter to a Hindu, A Confession, God Sees the Truth, but Waits, A Russian Christmas Party. Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka, Gusev, The Darling, The Lady with the Dog, A Slander, The Horse-Stealers, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-GlassOld Age, Darkness, The Beggar, In Trouble, Frost, Minds in Ferment, Gone Astray.

Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities. Bulgakov's short stories are a world unto themselves—sharp, witty, and often unsettling. In these pages, the absurdity of Soviet life collides with the supernatural, the grotesque meets the comic, and reality is always just a step away from slipping into nightmare.

Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

Ги де Мопассан—крупнейший французский новеллист, мастер рассказа с неожиданной концовкой.

"Едва ли был другой такой писатель, столь искренно считавший, что все благо, весь смысл жизни—в женщине, в любви… и едва ли был когда-нибудь писатель, который до такой ясности и точности показал все ужасные стороны того самого явления, которое казалось ему самым высоким и дающим наибольшее благо жизни"

Sbornik rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Chehov - velikij russkij myslitel'-realist, oblichitel' mira poshlosti i meshhanstva, nesravnennyj hudozhnik. Problemy, postavlennye v ego proizvedenijah, aktual'ny i v nashi dni.

Аудиоверсии рассказов, зарисовок и миниатюр Василия Никифорова-Волгина, вошедшие в данный сборник, складываются в тихую, задушевную песню о России. Во времена беззаконий, гонений, обрушившихся на родную землю, в море человеческих страданий писатель отыскивает зерна христианской любви, рисует персонажей, которые сохраняют и несут Святую Русь в своем сердце.