This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Russia.

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This book contains:

- Leonid Andreyev:

- Lazarus

- On The Day of Crucifixion

- The Crushed Flower

- The Serpent's Story

- JUdas Iscariot

- The Little Angel

- A Story Wich Will Never Be Finished

- Daniil Kharms:

- Symphony no. 2

- On phenomena and existences - No. 1

- The thing

- Andrey Semyonovich

- An unexpected drinking bout

- The destiny of a professor's wife

- The memoirs of a wise old man

- Alexander Pushkin:

- The Queen of Spades

- The Shot

- The Snowstorm

- The Postmaster

- The Coffin-maker

- Kirdjali

- Peter, The Great's Negro

- Ivan Turgenev:

- A Desperate Character

- Knock, Knock, Knock

- A Strange Story

- The Dog

- The District Doctor

- The Inn

- Mumu

- Maxim Gorky:

- Her Lover

- One Autumn Night

- Twenty Six Men and a Girl

- The Dead Man

- Waiting for the Ferry

- The Billionaire

- The Birth of a Man