Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev (fastest ebook reader TXT) π
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Leonid Andreyev was a Russian playwright and author of short stories and novellas, writing primarily in the first two decades of the 20th century. Matching the depression he suffered from an early age, his writing is always dark of tone with subjects including biblical parables, Russian life, eldritch horror and revolutionary fervour. H. P. Lovecraft was a reader of his work, and The Seven Who Were Hanged (included here) has even been cited as direct inspiration for the assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand: the event that started the first World War. Originally a lawyer, his first published short story brought him to the attention of Maxim Gorky who not only became a firm friend but also championed Andreyevβs writing in his collections to great commercial acclaim.
Widely translated into English during his life, this collection comprises the best individual translations of each of his short stories and novellas available in the public domain, presented in chronological order of their original publication in Russian.
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ColophonShort Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1898 and 1916 by
Leonid Andreyev.
They were translated from Russian between 1905 and 1922 by
Herman Bernstein, Alexandra Linden, L. A. Magnus, K. Walter, W. H. Lowe, The Russian Review, Archibald J. Wolfe, John Cournos, and Maurice Magnus.
This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Robin Whittleton,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2009 and 2015 by
Eric Eldred, Jarrod Newton, David Widger, and Marc DβHooghe
for
Project Gutenberg (The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories, The Little Angel, and Other Stories, When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories, and The Dark)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (The Red Laugh, The Seven Who Were Hanged, A Dilemma, The Wall, The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories, The Little Angel, and Other Stories, A Present, The Giant and The Story of the Snake, The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days, When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories, His Excellency the Governor, and The Dark).
The cover page is adapted from
Death in the Sickroom,
a painting completed in 1893 by
Edvard Munch.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.
The first edition of this ebook was released on
October 21, 2019, 9:19 p.m.
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