Best Russian Short Stories
BEST RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES |
| compiled and edited by thomas seltzer |
| the modern library • new york |
copyright, 1917, by boni & liveright, inc.
copyright, 1925, by the modern library, inc.
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Random House is the publisher of T H EM O D E R NL I B R A R Y bennett a. cerf - donald s. klopper - robert k. haas Manufactured in the United States of America Printed by Parkway Printing Company Bound by H. Wolff |
CONTENTS
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| Introduction | vii | |
| The Queen of Spades | A.S. Pushkin | 1 |
| The Cloak | N.V. Gogol | 29 |
| The District Doctor | I.S. Turgenev | 61 |
| The Christmas Tree and the Wedding | F.M. Dostoyevsky | 71 |
| God Sees the Truth, but Waits | L.N. Tolstoy | 79 |
| How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials | M.Y. Saltykov | 88 |
| The Shades, a Phantasy | V.G. Korolenko | 97 |
| The Signal | V.M. Garshin | 124 |
| The Darling | A.P. Chekhov | 134 |
| The Bet | A.P. Chekhov | 147 |
| Vanka | A.P. Chekhov | 155 |
| Hide and Seek | F.K. Sologub | 160 |
| Dethroned | I.N. Potapenko | 172 |
| The Servant | S.T. Semyonov | 192 |
| One Autumn Night | M. Gorky | 199 |
| Her Lover | M. Gorky | 209 |
| Lazarus | L.N. Andreyev | 215 |
| The Revolutionist | M.P. Artzybashev | 235 |
| The Outrage | A.I. Kuprin | 245 |
| The Seven That Were Hanged | L. N. Andreyev | 1 |
| The Red Laugh | L. N. Andreyev | 103 |
| The Gentleman from San Francisco | Ivan Bunin | 197 |
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1957, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 66 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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