Best Russian Short Stories

by Seltzer, Thomas, Pushkin, Alexander, Chekhov, Anton, Dostoyevsky, Fiodor, Turgenev, Ivan, Tolstoy, Leo, Gorky, Maxim, Gogol, Nikolay, Korolenko, Vladimir, Kuprin, Aleksandr, Sologub, Fyodor, Potapenko, Ignaty, Andreyev, Leonid, Artsybashev, Mikhail, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail, Semyonov, Sergey

A comprehensive anthology of the Russian short stories in the English language by some of the best and most well known Russian authors in the early 1900s.

English-Russian Parallel Edition. This edition is designed for those who are learning the Russian language and wish to read the original literary works. To aid in this process additional paragraph breaks were added throughout the texts to make both the originals and the translated texts aligned as closely as possible.

This book has all 18 short stories featured on this site, containing a total of 85,099 words.

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