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A review by pivic
Great Russian Short Stories by Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev, Theodor Sologub, Leonid Andreyev, Nicholay Leskov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Vsevolod Garshin, Paul Negri, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin
4.0
This book contains Dostoyevsky's "White Nights", which is a masterpiece. Likewise I must say I enjoyed Andreyev's "Lazarus": I can't really say why I liked those short-stories so much, but they were a long stretch away from being classical tales.
Through these stories, I feel I've got a firm grasp of 19th-century Russian writing. It's interesting to see how it differs so much and yet so universally little from a lot of western English-speaking literature (even though this is a collection translated to English).
All in all: brilliant and a long stretch from this somewhat stressed-out day and age. A story like Gogol's "The Overcoat" is typical.
Through these stories, I feel I've got a firm grasp of 19th-century Russian writing. It's interesting to see how it differs so much and yet so universally little from a lot of western English-speaking literature (even though this is a collection translated to English).
All in all: brilliant and a long stretch from this somewhat stressed-out day and age. A story like Gogol's "The Overcoat" is typical.