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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 4 - cover

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 4

Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, August Nemo

Publisher: Tacet Books

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Summary

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.
For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:

- Nikolai GogolThe Nose
The Viy
The Cloak
Old-Fashioned Farmers
The Overcoat
Memoirs of a Madman
The Mysterious Portrait

- Anton ChekhovThe Lady With The Little Dog
Ward No. 6
A Joke
The Darling
Kashtanka
The Black Monk
In The Ravine

- Joseph ConradThe Idiots
An Outpost of Progress
Amy Foster
Youth
An Anarchist
The Secret Sharer
The Return

- Leonid AndreyevLazarus
On The Day of Crucifixion
The Crushed Flower
The Serpent's Story
JUdas Iscariot
The Little Angel
A Story Wich Will Never Be Finished

- James JoyceThe Sisters
Eveline
Araby
A Painful Case
The Dead
Two Gallants
After the Race

- Fyodor DostoevskyWhite Nights
An Honest Thief
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
Notes From Underground
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
A Little Hero
Mr. Prohartchin

- Alexander PushkinThe Queen of Spades
The Shot
The Snowstorm
The Postmaster
The Coffin-maker
Kirdjali
Peter, The Great's Negro

- Turgenev'sA Desperate Character
Knock, Knock, Knock
A Strange Story
The Dog
The District Doctor
The Inn
Mumu

- Alexei PeshkovOne Autumn Night
Twenty Six Men and a Girl
The Dead Man
Waiting for the Ferry
The Billionaire
The Birth of a Man

- Leo TolstoyGod Sees the Truth, But Waits
Papa Panov's Special Christmas
Three Questions
Work, Death and Sickness  A Legend
How Much Land Does a Man Needs?
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Alyosha the Pot
Available since: 04/09/2020.

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