Great French and Russian Short Stories: Volume 1

About the Author Guy de Maupassant was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors Product Description The short stories presented in this volume include several by Guy de Maupassant: "Love's Awakening," "Useless Beauty," "In the Moonlight," and "The Horla." Also included are "The Thief" and "The Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "The Mysterious Mansion" and "Christ in Flanders" by Honoré de Balzac; "The Bet,""The Kiss," "The Lottery Ticket," "A Work of Art," and "The Slanderer" by Anton Chekhov; "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol; "Zodmirsky's Duel" by Alexandre Dumas; "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin; "The Long Exile" by Leo Tolstoy; and "Captain Burle" by Emile Zola.