Best Russian Short Stories Edited and Compiled by Thomas Seltzer

Reproduction of the original, first published in 1925. Landmark 1917 anthology of 19th and early 20th-century Russian short fiction edited and translated by Thomas Seltzer. Designed to introduce English-speaking readers to the depth and humanitarian breadth of Russian realism, the collection features iconic stories by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Maksim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Aleksandr Kuprin, alongside works by Garshin, Korolenko, Sologub, and Artsybashev.