Subtly worded and other stories / Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase.
"The stories in this volume are selected from Teffi's entire body of work, 1910-1952"--Verso title page. Translated from the Russian. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part V. Last stories -- And time was no more. The Corsican -- Will-power -- The hat -- The lifeless beast -- Jealousy -- The Quiet Backwater -- Duty and honour -- Part II. 1916-19 : Rasputin, Revolution and Civil War -- Petrograd monologue -- One day in the future -- One of us -- Rasputin -- Part III. 1920s and 1930s in Paris -- Que faire? -- Subtly worded -- Marquita -- My first Tolstoy -- Heart of a Valkyrie -- Ernest with the languages -- Part IV. 1930s : Magic tales -- The kind that walk -- The dog (a story from a stranger) -- Part V. Last stories -- The blind one -- Thy will -- And time was no more.
Summary:
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny - a wry, scathing observer of society - she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous subtlety and depth of character. There are stories here from her own life (as a child, going to meet Tolstoy to plead for the life of War and Peace's Prince Bolkonsky, o.
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