Russian Stories

Two centuries of short stories by twenty-five titans of Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich--in the beautifully jacketed Pocket Classics series. Russian Stories features marvelous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, as well as contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich. There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the Russian greats in English, especially one including as many women, like the story by the recently rediscovered Teffi. From storms in Pushkin's 'The Blizzard' to the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse in Alexievich's 'Landscape of Loneliness,' these stories explore the dramas, upheavals, and human spirit of Russia.