Short Fiction by Aleksandr Kuprin (nonfiction book recommendations .txt) 📕
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Aleksandr Kuprin was one of the most celebrated Russian authors of the early twentieth century, writing both novels (including his most famous, The Duel) and short fiction. Along with Chekhov and Bunin, he did much to draw attention away from the “great Russian novel” and to make short fiction popular. His work is famed for its descriptive qualities and sense of place, but it always centers on the souls of the stories’ subjects. The themes of his work are wide and varied, and include biblical parables, bittersweet romances, spy fiction, and farce, among many others. In 1920, under some political pressure, Kuprin left Russia for France, and his later work primarily adopts his new homeland for the setting.
This collection comprises the best individual translations into English of each of his short stories and novellas available in the public domain, presented in chronological order of their translated publication.
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An arshin is about ¾ of a yard, and a pood is 36 lbs. —S. G. ↩
Some municipalities in Russia provide a man and a cart to take off stray dogs. Jack had been suddenly netted by the dog-man. —S. G. ↩
One of the hermits of the Egyptian Desert, a saint in the Russian Calendar. —S. G. ↩
The Russian version of this passage reads: “… jealousy is cruel as the grave: the arrows thereof are arrows of fire.” In this, I have been given to understand, it adheres more closely than does the English Bible to the original Hebrew. —B. G. G. ↩
“Which is the second month …”
—1 Kings 6:1.—B. G. G. ↩
“Which is the eighth month …”
—1 Kings 6:38.—B. G. G. ↩
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
—Proverbs 25:11.—B. G. G. ↩
Abimelech; i.e., Father-King. —B. G. G. ↩
It is worth noting that the Saint does not perform a miracle to secure himself and Vassily a good supper. —A. G. ↩
A suburb of Moscow. —B. G. G. ↩
The schema is the habit worn by Russian monks of the greatest asceticism. —B. G. G. ↩
Different species of the sturgeon. —B. G. G. ↩
“Half-a-lord.” —B. G. G. ↩
In English in the original. —B. G. G. ↩
ColophonShort Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1894 and 1919 by
Aleksandr Kuprin.
They were translated from Russian between 1916 and 1925 by
S. Koteliansky, J. M. Murry, Stephen Graham, Rosa Savory, Leo Pasvolsky, Douglas Ashby, B. Guilbert Guerney, Alexander Gagarine and Malcolm W. Davis,
and from French in 1922 by
The Living Age.
This ebook was produced for
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Robin Whittleton,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2010 and 2018 by
David Garcia, Marc D’Hooghe, Charlie Howard, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg (The River of Life, and Other Stories, A Slav Soul, and Other Stories and Sulamith)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (The River of Life, and Other Stories, A Slav Soul, and Other Stories, Sulamith, The Piebald Horses and The Little Red Christmas Tree) and the HathiTrust Digital Library (Le Coq d’Or and Gambrinus and Other Stories).
The cover page is adapted from
The Harlot of Marseilles,
a painting completed in 1923 by
Boris Grigoriev.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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