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  • Published: 27 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241199817
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories




A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia

In the best of Leskov's stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov is one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a fascination for crime, an occasionally lurid imagination and a great love for the Russian vernacular. This volume includes five of his greatest stories, including the masterful Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

  • Published: 27 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241199817
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta