Best Russian Short Stories

By Thomas Seltzer

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing
• Release date: Nov 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312545106

Reviews for Best Russian Short Stories

[tess_schoolmarm · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I am not a fan of most short stories, as they are not well enough developed to be enjoyable to me and Russian short stories are no different. Most of the stories dealt with class differences.

[leslie398 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A mixed collection - I really enjoyed Gogol's "The Cloak", Saltykov's "How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials", and Korolenko's "The Shades, a Phantasy" but disliked Andreyev's "Lazarus" and Artzybashev's "The Revolutionist". The others fell in between. This collection did give me a good sampling of classic Russian authors, including several I had never heard of before.

[tess_w · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I am not a fan of most short stories, as they are not well enough developed to be enjoyable to me and Russian short stories are no different. Most of the stories dealt with class differences.

[mausergem_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a short story collection edited and compiled by Thomas Seltzer. It contains stories of the greats of Russian literature such as Gorky, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov and others.The Russian short story writer is more concerned about the common man. His main theme is the common man and his suffering. The best stories are The Cloak by NV Gogol, The Shades by VG Korolenko, The Darling by AP Chekhov and Lazarus by LN Andreyev were the stories I liked the best.