The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense (2010) by Otto Penzler
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Overview: The greatest Russian crime and mystery fiction—including Acunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin, and Tolstoy.
Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state but, instead, gave individual characters the significance that the U.S.S.R. despised. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era.
There have been few policemen, and virtually no private detectives or amateur sleuths, in Russian history worthy of approbation, and in consequence its literature is dramatically different from its Western counterparts. Criminals in Mother Russia tend to be caught or punished by their own consciences or by ghosts, and the notion of a criminal trial as we know it is utterly alien. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors has long been justly acclaimed, and the rare forays they made into the loosely defined genre of mystery fiction rank among the world’s classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CONTENTS
OTTO PENZLER Introduction
BORIS AKUNIN Table Talk, 1882
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Murder from Crime and Punishment
VIL LIPATOV Genka Paltsev, Son of Dmitri
NIKOLAI GOGOL The Portrait
ANTON CHEKHOV The Swedish Match
ANTON CHEKHOV Sleepy
ANTON CHEKHOV The Head-Gardener’s Story
ANTON CHEKHOV The Bet
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN The Queen of Spades
LEV SHEINEN The Hunting Knife
IVAN BUNIN The Gentleman from San Francisco
P. NIKITIN The Strangler
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Revenge
NIKOLAI LYESKOV The Sentry
MAXIM GORKY A Strange Murderer
BORIS SOKOLOFF The Crime of Dr. Garine
NIKOLAI GOGOL The Overcoat
LEO TOLSTOY God Sees the Truth, but Waits
LEO TOLSTOY Too Dear
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 391 KB
Overview: The greatest Russian crime and mystery fiction—including Acunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin, and Tolstoy.
Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state but, instead, gave individual characters the significance that the U.S.S.R. despised. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era.
There have been few policemen, and virtually no private detectives or amateur sleuths, in Russian history worthy of approbation, and in consequence its literature is dramatically different from its Western counterparts. Criminals in Mother Russia tend to be caught or punished by their own consciences or by ghosts, and the notion of a criminal trial as we know it is utterly alien. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors has long been justly acclaimed, and the rare forays they made into the loosely defined genre of mystery fiction rank among the world’s classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CONTENTS
OTTO PENZLER Introduction
BORIS AKUNIN Table Talk, 1882
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Murder from Crime and Punishment
VIL LIPATOV Genka Paltsev, Son of Dmitri
NIKOLAI GOGOL The Portrait
ANTON CHEKHOV The Swedish Match
ANTON CHEKHOV Sleepy
ANTON CHEKHOV The Head-Gardener’s Story
ANTON CHEKHOV The Bet
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN The Queen of Spades
LEV SHEINEN The Hunting Knife
IVAN BUNIN The Gentleman from San Francisco
P. NIKITIN The Strangler
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Revenge
NIKOLAI LYESKOV The Sentry
MAXIM GORKY A Strange Murderer
BORIS SOKOLOFF The Crime of Dr. Garine
NIKOLAI GOGOL The Overcoat
LEO TOLSTOY God Sees the Truth, but Waits
LEO TOLSTOY Too Dear
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