The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories

Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers, Leskov's writing exuberantly fables the national character of his age. For the first time, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation brings Leskov's original storytelling and irresistible voice to life.

About the author

Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg. He published his first piece of fiction in 1862 in The Northern Bee, and continued on to write and publish many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), The Sealed Angel (1873), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and Lefty(1882). He died in February 1895.

Summary

Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers, Leskov’s writing exuberantly fables the national character of his age.

Product details

• Authors: Nikolai Leskov
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9780099577362
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957736-2
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary