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:

Nikolai Gogol:

- The Nose

- The Viy

- The Cloak

- Old-Fashioned Farmers

- The Overcoat

- Memoirs of a Madman

- The Mysterious PortraitAnton Chekhov:

- The Lady With The Little Dog

- Ward No. 6

- A Joke

- The Darling

- Kashtanka

- The Black Monk

- In The Ravinein the ravienFyodor Dostoevsky:

- White Nights

- An Honest Thief

- The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

- Notes From Underground

- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

- A Little Hero

- Mr. Prohartchin

Leo Tolstoy:

- God Sees the Truth, But Waits

- Papa Panov's Special Christmas

- Three Questions

- Work, Death and Sickness A Legend

- How Much Land Does a Man Needs?

- The Death of Ivan Ilyich

- Alyosha the Pot

Valery Bryusov:

- The Republic of the Southern Cross.

- The Marble Bust.

- For Herself or for Another.

- In the Mirror.

- Protection.

- The "Bemol" Shop of Stationery.

- Rhea Silvia.