The cover page is adapted from Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, a painting completed in 1884 by Ilya Repin. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repinwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Chapters (19)
- Introduction 0:00
- Preface 2:34
- Coward 3:22
- Four Days 56:59
- An Incident 1:29:15
- A Very Short Romance 2:11:56
- The Meeting 2:24:33
- Officer and Soldier-Servant 3:13:39
- A Night 3:49:04
- Attalea Princeps 4:35:52
- From the Reminiscences of Private Ivanoff 4:55:26
- “Make Believe” 6:56:18
- The Bears 7:07:44
- The Scarlet Blossom 7:52:38
- A Toad and a Rose 8:33:55
- Nadejda Nicolaievna 8:50:44
- The Action at Aislar 11:31:37
- The Frog Who Travelled 12:09:26
- The Signal 12:20:47
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Vsevolod Garshin’s literary career followed a stint as a infantry soldier and later an officer, and he received both public and critical acclaim in the 1880s. Before his sadly early death at the age of thirty-three after a lifelong battle with mental illness he wrote and published nineteen short stories. He drew on his military career and life in St. Petersburg as initial source material, and his varied cast of characters includes soldiers, painters, architects, madmen, bears, frogs and even flowers and trees. All are written with a depth of feeling and sympathy that marks Garshin out from his contemporaries.
Collected here are the seventeen translations into English by Rowland Smith of Garshin’s short stories and novellas, in chronological order of the original Russian publication.