The duel
By: Alexander Kuprin ; translated by Josh Billings
Contributors: Billings, Josh
Series: The art of the novella; Melville House classics
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781935554523
Subjects: Dueling; Fiction
Work titles: Poedinok
Description: Her mouth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow." An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel--over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a luminous depiction of the end of an era.
Notes: Translated from Russian.