Enchanted Wanderer And Other Stories

Name: Enchanted Wanderer And Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780307268822

ISBN-10: 0307268829

ISBN-13: 9780307268822

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Authors: Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

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The award-winning translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery whose earthy and exuberant stories, famous in his own country, have never before been properly translated into English.Leskov's short stories exploded the traditions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Innovative in form and richly playful in language, these 17 tales are visionary and fantastic and yet always grounded in reality, peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and garrulous storytellers. In stories long considered classics Leskov takes the speech patterns of…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Nikolái Leskovwas a Russian journalist, novelist, and short story writer.Sara Gutiérrezis a translator.Care Santos is an author and literary critic. Javier Herrerois an illustrator.

Richard Pevear has produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, & Bulgakov. The translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" won the 1991 PEN Book of the Month Club translation prize.

Larissa Volohonsky has produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, & Bulgakov. The translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" won the 1991 PEN Book of the Month Club translation prize.



Introduction


Translators' Note


The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk


The Sealed Angel


The Enchanted Wanderer


Singlemind


The Devil-Chase


Deathless Golovan


The White Eagle


A Flaming Patriot


Lefty


The Spirit of Madame de Genlis


The Toupee Artist


The Voice of Nature


A Little Mistake


The Pearl Necklace


The Spook


The Man on Watch


A Robbery


Notes