Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Russia 2

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Russia.

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This book contains:

Nikolai Gogol:



- The Nose

- The Viy

- The Cloak

- Old-Fashioned Farmers

- The Overcoat

- Memoirs of a Madman

- The Mysterious PortraitAnton Chekhov:



- The Lady With The Little Dog

- Ward No. 6

- A Joke

- The Darling

- Kashtanka

- The Black Monk

- In The Ravinein the ravienFyodor Dostoevsky:



- White Nights

- An Honest Thief

- The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

- Notes From Underground

- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

- A Little Hero

- Mr. Prohartchin

Leo Tolstoy:



- God Sees the Truth, But Waits

- Papa Panov's Special Christmas

- Three Questions

- Work, Death and Sickness A Legend

- How Much Land Does a Man Needs?

- The Death of Ivan Ilyich

- Alyosha the Pot

Valery Bryusov:



- The Republic of the Southern Cross.

- The Marble Bust.

- For Herself or for Another.

- In the Mirror.

- Protection.

- The "Bemol" Shop of Stationery.

- Rhea Silvia.



Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (13 December 1873 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.