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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida � 2005 (Penguin Classics)

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature.

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Tolstoy L., The Cossacks � 2001 (Russian classics)

"The hero of my tale, whom I love with all my heart and soul, whom I have tried to depict in all his beauty, and who always was, is and will be beautiful - is Truth". The years 1851 to 1854 that Tolstoy spent in the Caucasus and the action he saw there as an officer in the Russian Army are reflected in his novella The Cossacks (1853-1862). In this work, completed in 1862, he shares with us his inmost thoughts about the true value of human life, the goodness of the common man, and the hypocrisy of aristocratic society, which his central character, Olenin, rejects. The story A Prisoner in the Caucasus is basrd on the events of the Caucasian War of 1817-1864, waged by tsarist Russia against the hillsmen of Daghestan and Chechnia. War, according to Tolstoy, sets people apart and against each other, while human nature dictates the opposite. War is out of harmony with the "pacifying beauty and power" of nature, which is eternally alive and beautiful.

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The India Rubber Boy � 1989 (Russian Classical Stories for Children)

This book is a collection of short stories about children and for children by 19th century authors.

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Tolstoy L., Childhood,Boyhood, and Youth � 1968

Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, "Childhood", the first part of Tolstoy�s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy�s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the �poetry� of childhood � the intense emotions, confusions, and fears attendant upon a young boy, Nikolenka, as he grows up. In the years following, "Boyhood" and "Youth" appeared (a fourth volume was planned but never executed), each replete with psychological and philosophical subtleties hitherto unknown in Russian literature. In Scammell�s resplendent translation, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth" remains one of Tolstoy�s major works.

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