A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence. Immediately censored by Russian authorities and banned by the U.S. Postal...
Short stories, Russian
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
- Author:Chekhov, Anton PavlovichSummary:
Presents five of the author's most acclaimed short stories.
- Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today...