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Short Fiction
Chapitres (39)
- Foreword 0:00
- Bargamot and Garaska 2:16
- The Little Angel 25:48
- Petka at the Bungalow 1:02:01
- The Friend 1:28:33
- A Grand Slam 1:46:33
- Love, Faith and Hope 2:11:02
- Silence 2:25:13
- “Men May Rise on Stepping-Stones of Their Dead Selves to Higher Things” 2:59:45
- The Lie 3:09:15
- The Wall 3:33:44
- Snapper 3:55:26
- Laughter 4:14:29
- In the Basement 4:27:14
- The Tocsin 4:55:23
- A Present 5:11:25
- A Dilemma 5:32:15
- An Original 7:31:57
- On the Day of the Crucifixion 7:56:30
- At the Roadside Station 8:06:11
- Life of Father Vassily 8:17:34
- The Red Laugh 11:58:29
- The Spy 14:42:02
- The Marseillaise 15:19:07
- The City 15:26:28
- When the King Loses His Head 15:45:23
- His Excellency the Governor 17:01:50
- Lazarus 19:25:34
- Judas Iscariot 20:18:02
- A Story Which Will Never Be Finished 23:06:28
- The Dark 23:20:15
- The Seven Who Were Hanged 25:27:38
- The Giant 28:48:35
- “The Man Who Found the Truth” 28:55:35
- The Story of the Snake 31:31:53
- Dies Irae 31:45:58
- The Ocean 32:17:34
- The Crushed Flower 35:03:25
- The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days 35:43:50
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Leonid Andreyev was a Russian playwright and author of short stories and novellas, writing primarily in the first two decades of the 20th century. Matching the depression he suffered from an early age, his writing is always dark of tone with subjects including biblical parables, Russian life, eldritch horror and revolutionary fervour. H. P. Lovecraft was a reader of his work, and The Seven Who Were Hanged (included here) has even been cited as direct inspiration for the assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand: the event that started the First World War. Originally a lawyer, his first published short story brought him to the attention of Maxim Gorky who not only became a firm friend but also championed Andreyev’s writing in his collections to great commercial acclaim.
Widely translated into English during his life, this collection comprises the best individual translations of each of his short stories and novellas available in the public domain, presented in chronological order of their original publication in Russian.