The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales
by Nikolai Leskov
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Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection.Tags
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Anyone interested in Russian lit, would be well served to read this book. Leskov's storytelling is beautifully crafted and authentically Russian. Do not expect prose as polished as Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, but a lovely intro to the world of Russian fairy tales.
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- Canonical title
- The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales
- Original publication date
- 1873
- Disambiguation notice
- Do not combine books called The Enchanted Wanderer without careful checking; there are four separate collections under that title, plus the 1924 A.G. Paschkoff translation of the story by itself, published as a separat... (show all)e book.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.733 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917
- LCC
- PG3337 .L5 .A247 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 3
