TY - BOOK TI - Great Russian short stories SN - 9780440331421 AV - PG3286.H838.G743 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Laurel KW - Short stories, Russian KW - Translations into English N1 - Introduction --; Queen of spades; Alexander Pushkin --; Taman; Mikhail Lermontov --; Bezhin Meadows; Ivan Turgenev --; How a muzhik fed two officials; Mikhail Saltykov --; Gentle spirit. Crocodile; Fyodor Dostoevsky --; What men live by. Kholstomer; Leo Tolstoy --; Lady with the dog. Anna on the neck; Anton Chekhov --; Outrage; Alexander Kuprin --; In the steppes; Maxim Gorky --; Seven who were hanged; Leonid Andreyev; 2 N2 - "From romanticism to realism, nineteenth-century Russian fiction gave the world masterworlds of the imagination from such authors as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, and Turgenev. This outstanding collection now allows readers to experience their themes, styles, and characters in thirteen carefully selected short stories -- ER -