A further selection of the best stories of the great Russian writer that have so far remained untranslated into English.
CONTENTS
1. LOST BUSINESS (Пропащее дело) (1882) The narrator recounts how on a lovely spring day he’d gone to see his beloved Varya to empty his heart and soul to her. He’d mumbled a few phrases while his beloved looked at him encouragingly, and then he’d explained to her how poor he was and although she mentioned that she had a dowry, carried away by his flame for (…)
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