Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes
Author: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)
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Published: 1771
Total Pages: 118
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Author: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)
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Published: 1771
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)
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Published: 1771
Total Pages: 126
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Published: 1771
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mikhail Zoshchenko
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0231545150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko’s deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life—and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era. “A book that would make Gogol guffaw.”—Kirkus Reviews “If you find Chekhov a bit tame and want a more bite to your fiction, then you need a dose of Zoshchenko, the premier Russian satirist of the twentieth century . . . Snap up this thin volume and enjoy.”—Russian Life “Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. . . . Juxtaposing joyful wit with the bleakness of Soviet Russia, Sentimental Tales is a potent antidote for Russian literature’s dour reputation.”—Foreword Reviews “Superb.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Author: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)
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Published: 1771
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mikhail Zoshchenko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780253201928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the most popular writers of the early Soviet period was the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko, whose career spanned nearly four decades and who was as beloved by ordinary people as he was admired by the elite. His most popular pieces, often appearing in newspapers, were "short-short stories" written in a slangy, colloquial style. Typical targets of his satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and what a disdainful Soviet judge in one of the sketches dismisses as "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." Farcical complications, satiric understatement, humorous anachronisms, and an ironic contrast between high-flown sentiments and the down-to-earth reality of mercenary instincts were his favorite devices. Zoshchenko had an uncanny knack for eluding Soviet censorship (one of the sketches even touches humorously on the dangerous topic of party purges) and his work as a result offers us a marvelous window on life in Russia during the twenties and thirties.
Author: William Russell
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Published: 1771
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-11
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 3387318626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Janet Fitch
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2019-07-02
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 0316510068
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