Andreev

By Leonid Andreyev

1969

First Published

4.55

Average Rating

388

Number of Pages

11H51M

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• Introduction • Fifteen classic stories by Leonid Andreyev, specially chosen for this collection • Biographical and critical essays from Serge Persky and William Lyon Phelps • Illustrated throughout by brand new abstract images designed to compliment the evocative tone of the pieces. A Russian titan, Leonid Andreyev stands as a colossus alongside the many giants of his country’s literary lineage. Selected for this collection are many of his finest short stories. A practitioner in the darkest recesses of the human heart and imagination, his tales delve the wretched depths of madness and horror. In mesmerising fashion Andreyev visits the prison cell, the public execution, the diseased family home, and the nightmare of natural catastrophe. A writer of immense power, unflinching and unrelenting, Leonid Andreyev has left us the beneficiaries of his incendiary work. Some of which is included in this volume. Stories included in this The City A Story Which Will Never Be Finished The Friend Love, Faith and Hope The Tocsin Silence Life of Father Vassily The Serpent’s Story Lazarus Judas Iscariot Ben-Tobith When the King Loses His Head Dies Irie The Man Who Found the Truth Stepping-Stones

Avg Rating

4.55

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Author

Leonid Andreyev

Author · 26 books

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Андреев; 1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. His first story published was About a Poor Student, a narrative based upon his own experiences. It was not, however, until Gorky discovered him by stories appearing in the Moscow Courier and elsewhere that Andreyevs literary career really began. His first collection of stories appeared in 1901, and sold a quarter-million copies in short time. He was hailed as a new star in Russia, where his name soon became a byword. He published his short story, In the Fog in 1902. Although he started out in the Russian vein he soon startled his readers by his eccentricities, which grew even faster than his fame. His two best known stories may be The Red Laugh (1904) and The Seven Who Were Hanged (1908). His dramas include the Symbolist plays The Life of Man (1906), Tsar Hunger (1907), Black Masks (1908), Anathema (1909) and He Who Gets Slapped (1915).