The Enchanted Wanderer - Selected Tales

About the author

David Magarshack's translations include works by Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, and Pushkin. His translation of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky is available as a Modern Library Paperback Classic.

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1996) was a prolific English writer, essayist, critic, novelist, and journalist.

Summary

Written over the course of Leskov's career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection.

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"Nikolai Leskov is one of the greatest and most popular of the wonderful group of Russian storytellers who flourished in the nineteenth century."-The New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Nikolai Leskov, David Magarshack, V. S. Pritchett
• Assisted by: V. S. Pritchett (Introduction), V.S. Pritchett (Introduction), David Magarshack (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780812966961
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-6696-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Modern Library Classics; Modern Library Classics