This selection represents the best of pre-Revolutionary Russian literature, includes stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Korolenko, Chehov, Maxim Gorky, and others. Human aspiration and social improvement elevate these stories enlivened by an idiomatic sense of comedy; this edition also allows readers to discover the delightful narrative skills of little-known writers such as Korolenko, Kupin and Chirinov.
