Project Gutenberg 2022-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 255 Patten, William 1868 1936 Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 1, Russian $aUnited States :$bP. F. Collier & Son,$c1907. The queen of spades, by Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin -- The cloak, by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol -- The rendezvous, by Ivan Turgenev -- The counting-house, by Ivan Turgenev -- The thief, by Feodor Mikailovitch Dostoievski -- The long exile, by Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi -- Easter night, by Vladímir Galaktionovitch Korolénko -- The signal, by Vsevolod Mikailovitch Garshin -- The curse of fame, by Ignatiy Nikolaievitch Potapenko -- A work of art, by Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov -- The slanderer, by Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov -- Faust, by Eugène Nikolaievitch Chirikov -- The duel, by Nikolai Dmítrievitch Teleshov -- Boless, by Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki) -- The love of a scene-painter, by "Skitalitz" -- Valia, by Leonid Andreiev. so far Andrés V. Galia, Ed Leckert, Supawe, Xsanf, John Robbins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Short Story Classics (Foreign), Vol. 1, Russian" by William Patten is a collection of Russian short stories compiled and edited in the early 20th century. This anthology features works from renowned authors such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, representing the richness of Russian literary tradition. The collection likely focuses on themes of human experience, societal critique, and moral dilemmas, reflecting the distinct cultural and historical contexts in which these stories were written. The opening portion of the work includes an introduction, transcriber's notes, and detailed contents, highlighting several prominent stories, including "The Queen of Spades" by Pushkin and "The Cloak" by Gogol. The introduction emphasizes the anthology's purpose, which is to showcase significant short stories from various foreign literatures, particularly Russian. The text also reveals some historical context about the authors and their contributions, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of each story's thematic elements and character developments in the remainder of the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/shortstoryclassi01pattrich 20200525120516patten 1907 US Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English Russian fiction -- Translations into English PG Text Category: Short Stories Category: Russian Literature 541673 2025-06-27T07:38:44.403261 text/html 522568 2024-10-18T23:35:55 text/html 1921401 2025-06-27T07:38:53.141224 application/epub+zip 1919909 2025-06-27T07:38:46.009227 application/epub+zip 358591 2025-06-27T07:38:45.193261 application/epub+zip 2043503 2025-06-27T07:38:58.110152 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1994768 2025-06-27T07:38:52.306297 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 438499 2022-09-30T21:17:34.858029 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 483150 2025-06-27T07:38:43.192302 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 463055 2024-10-18T23:35:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17383 2025-06-27T07:38:58.252159 application/rdf+xml 20444 2025-06-27T07:38:45.355182 image/jpeg 3090 2025-06-27T07:38:45.273250 image/jpeg 1881015 2025-06-27T07:38:44.529270 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog