A Slav Soul And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Kuprin, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410106225 ISBN 13 : 9781410106223

Editeur : Fredonia Books (NL), 2004

Synopsis

The tales selected here are taken from various volumes, and two of them, "The Elephant" and "The White Poodle," from a volume specially designed by Kuprin for reading aloud to children. The others are: A Slav Soul; The Song and The Dance; Easter Day; The Idiot; The Picture; Hamlet; Mechanical Justice; The Last Word; Dogs' Happiness; A Clump of Lilacs; Anathema; Tempting Providence; Cain. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a writing career, and was a friend of Maxim Gorky. He won fame with The Duel (1905), a novel of protest against the Russian military system. In 1909, Yama: The Pit, his novel dealing with prostitution in Odessa, created a sensation. Kuprin left Russia after the revolution but returned in 1937. Some of his best short stories of action and adventure appear in The Garnet Bracelet, originally published in 1917.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Oh how incomprehensible for us, how mysterious, how strange are the very simplest happenings in life. And we, not understanding them, unable to penetrate their significance, heap one event upon another, plait them together, join them, make acquaintances and marriages, write books, say sermons, found ministries, carry on war or trade, make new inventions and then after all, create history !A nd yet every time I think of the immensity and complexity, the incomprehensible and elemental accidentoriness of the whole hurlyburly of life, then my own little life seems but a miserable speck of dust lost in the whirl of a hurricane. So in a paragraph in one of his sketches Alexander Kuprin gives his feelings about his life and his work, and in that expression perhaps we see his characteristic attitude towards the world of which he writes. One of the strongest tales in this collection, Tempting Providence, is very representative of Kuprin in this vein. After Chekhof the most popular tale-writer in Russia is Kuprin, the author of fourteen volumes of effusive, touching and humorous stories.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fredonia Books (NL)
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410106225
• ISBN 13: 9781410106223
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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