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"Everything is subordinated to two main requirements —
humanitarian ideals and fidelity to life. This is the secret of the
marvellous simplicity of Russian literary art." — Thomas Seltzer

Introduction


Leonid Andreyev
- Lazarus

Mikhail Artsybashev
- The Revolutionist

Anton Chekhov
- The Bet
- The Darling
- Vanka

Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

Vsevolod Garshin
- The Signal

Nikolai Gogol
- The Cloak

Maxim Gorky
- One Autumn Night
- Her Lover

Vladimir Korolenko
- The Shades, A Phantasy

Aleksandr Kuprin
- The Outrage

Ignatii Potapenko
- Dethroned

Aleksandr Pushkin
- The Queen of Spades

Mikhail Saltykov
- How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials

S.T. Semyonov
- The Servant

Fyodor Sologub
- Hide and Seek

Leo Tolstoy
- God Sees the Truth, But Waits

Ivan Turgenev
- The District Doctor