description: • Introduction• Fifteen classic stories by Leonid Andreyev, specially chosen for this collection• Biographical and critical essays from Serge Persky and William Lyon Phelps• Illustrated throughout by brand new abstract images designed to compliment the evocative tone of the pieces.A Russian titan, Leonid Andreyev stands as a colossus alongside the many giants of his country’s literary lineage. Selected for this collection are many of his finest short stories. A practitioner in the darkest recesses of the human heart and imagination, his tales delve the wretched depths of madness and horror. In mesmerising fashion Andreyev visits the prison cell, the public execution, the diseased family home, and the nightmare of natural catastrophe. A writer of immense power, unflinching and unrelenting, Leonid Andreyev has left us the beneficiaries of his incendiary work. Some of which is included in this volume.Stories included in this The CityA Story Which Will Never Be FinishedThe FriendLove, Faith and HopeThe TocsinSilenceLife of Father VassilyThe Serpent’s StoryLazarusJudas IscariotBen-TobithWhen the King Loses His HeadDies IrieThe Man Who Found the TruthStepping-Stones
language: English
title: Andreev: Selected Stories
titlecomplete: Andreev: Selected Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature
ratings_count: 40
publisher: Bristol Classical Press