Subtly worded and other stories
By: Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase
Contributors: Jackson, Anne Marie, translator; Kitson, Clare, translator; Chandler, Robert, 1953- translator; Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947- translator; Steinberg, Irina, translator; Wase, Natalia, translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781782270379
Subjects: Russian Humorous stories; Translations into English; Russian Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Notes: Translated from the Russian.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Before the Revolution; title: A radiant Easter --; title: The Corsican --; title: Will-power --; title: The hat --; title: The lifeless beast --; title: Jealousy --; title: Duty and honour -- -- Part II. 1916-19 : Rasputin, Revolution and Civil War; title: Petrograd monologue --; title: One day in the future --; title: One of us --; title: Rasputin -- -- Part III. 1920s and 1930s in Paris; title: Que faire? --; title: Subtly worded --; title: Marquita --; title: My first Tolstoy --; title: Heart of a Valkyrie --; title: Ernest with the languages -- -- Part IV. 1930s : Magic tales; title: The kind that walk --; title: The dog (a story from a stranger) -- -- Part V. Last stories; title: The blind one --; title: Thy will --; title: And time was no more.