Contains the title story in which the life of a peaceful public official is permanently changed by a mysterious illness, and includes "Family Happiness," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Master and Man," also by the ninteenth-century Russian author.
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
This exquisite collection of Dostoevsky's works includes "Notes from Underground," "The Double," "The Gambler," "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "The Honest Thief," and several other masterful short works.
"Now," think they, "the land will belong to the dvornik: he will make us pay worse fines than the baruina did. ... And the muzhíks determined to purchase the land individually, according to the ability of each. And the baruina agreed to ...
... getting into it was the claim that his had been a good life. This justification of his life clutched at him, would not ... into his father's room and went up to his bed. The dying man went on howling desperately and thrashing his arms ...
In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss ...
23 Russian Masters World Greatest Short Stories