Best Russian Short Stories (free)

[Sitaram]

A text file from the Gutenberg Project (public domain)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13437/13437-8.txt

CONTENTS:

THE QUEEN OF SPADES _A.S. Pushkin_

THE CLOAK _N.V. Gogol_

THE DISTRICT DOCTOR _I.S. Turgenev_

THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING _F.M. Dostoyevsky_

GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS _L.N. Tolstoy_

HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS _M.Y. Saltykov_

THE SHADES, A PHANTASY _V.G. Korolenko_

THE SIGNAL _V.N. Garshin_

THE DARLING _A.P. Chekhov_

THE BET _A.P. Chekhov_

VANKA _A.P. Chekhov_

HIDE AND SEEK _F.K. Sologub_

DETHRONED _I.N. Potapenko_

THE SERVANT _S.T. Semyonov_

ONE AUTUMN NIGHT _M. Gorky_

HER LOVER _M. Gorky_

LAZARUS _L.N. Andreyev_

THE REVOLUTIONIST _M.P. Artzybashev_

THE OUTRAGE _A.I. Kuprin_


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P.S.

Some vocabulary

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/raconteur

raconteur

Etymology: French, from Middle French, from raconter to tell, from Old French, from re- aconter, acompter to tell, count --

A person who excels in telling anecdotes

 

[Kenny Shovel]

...if you speak Russian you can get access on-line to a lot more, as Sergo explains in this post...

 

[abecedarian]

Thanks Sitaram. I wonder if a search at their website for indvidual authors might yield even more such gems.

 

[StillILearn]

Martin, in VN's Glory, is convinced that he could read Chekhov's The Lady with the Little Dog through "one hundred times in a row".

Ah, how nicely she lost that lorgnette in the crowd on the pier at Yalta!

 

[Sitaram]

Seek and you shall find.