The Russian Masters

Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov — the writers who made the nineteenth-century Russian novel and story into the deepest moral instrument literature has produced.

The novel pushed to its limit

In this collection

• The Crocodile an Extraordinary Incident
• About Love
• Letters of Anton Chekhov to his Family and Friends
• My Life
• Ivan the Fool
• The Candle
• Work, Death, and Sickness
• The Gray Hare
• The Fox and the Grapes
• Uprooted
• The Birds in the Net
• The Two Volodyas
• The Turtle and the Eagle
• Betrothed
• The Sun's Heat
• On the Road
• Joy
• From the Diary
• An Unpleasant Predicament
• From the New Speller
• Father Vasily
• Three Deaths. A Tale.
• The Wisdom of Children
• The Shoemaker and the Devil
• Recollections of a Scorer. A Story.
• Khodinka
• An Adventure
• The Dependents
• The Father of a Family
• Boyhood
• The Raid
• A Lady's Story
• The Idiot
• An Actor's End
• Shrove Tuesday
• Strong Impressions
• The Lion and the Sun
• Where there is Love, there is God Also
• Croesus and Solon
• War and Peace
• The Blind Man and the Milk
• The Orator
• At Home
• Sleepy
• The Fox and the Goat
• Love
• The Chemist's Wife

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