Leskov's short stories exploded the traditions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Innovative in form and playful in language, these seventeen tales are peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and garrulous storytellers.\nRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's stunning translation brings Leskov's sophisticated storytelling and exuberant voice to life.\n'My favourite writer, the famous Nikolai Leskov' 
Anton Chekhov\n'Leskov is a writer for the future' 
Leo Tolstoy\n'Leskov fully deserves the privilege of standing in line with such makers of Russian literature as Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, and Goncharov' 
Maxim Gorky\n'Stories as strong as fables and crazy as life' 
Alice Munroe\n'Surreal, gripping, violent but comic tales' 
Margaret Atwood\n'Nikolai Leskov's absence from classic Russian literature lists must end now! If you like Russian, and you like funny, you will love Leskov' 
Gary Shteyngart

The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories

Leskov, Nikolai

Vintage Classics

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for an acclaimed new film starring Florence Pugh Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia, with a fascination for idiosyncratic characters, lurid crimes, comic absurdity, spirituality and the joy of pure story. This volume contains five of his greatest short tales, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Translated with an introduction by David McDuff

Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk And Othe

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classic

The award-winning translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery, whose earthy and exuberant stories, famous in his own country, have never before been adequately translated into English. Leskov was Chekhov’s favorite writer and was greatly admired by Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. His short stories—innovative in form, richly playful in language, now tragic, now satirical, now wildly comic in subject matter—exploded the prevailing traditions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction and paved the way for such famous literary successors as Mikhail Bulgakov. These seventeen stories are visionary and fantastic, and yet always grounded in reality, peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and, above all, the ubiquitous figure of the garrulous, enthralling, not entirely trustworthy storyteller. In stories long considered classics, Leskov takes the speech patterns of oral storytelling and spins them in new and startlingly modern ways, presenting seemingly artless yarns that are in fact highly sophisticated. It is the great gift of this new translation that it allows us to hear the many vibrant voices of Leskov’s singular art.

The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories

United States

KNOPF

Nikolai Leskov's writing exploded the conventions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Here is the other Russia, mythical and untamed: an uneasy synthesis of Orthodoxy and Old Believers, a land populated by soldiers and monks, serfs and princes, Tartars and gypsies—a vast country brimming with the promise of magic. These seventeen tales, some rooted in the oral tradition, others cast as sophisticated anecdotes, are all told in the voices of storytellers addressing their audience—allowing us, as readers, to join a group of listeners. Innovative in form and rich in wordplay, the narratives unfurl in startlingly modern ways. The great gift of this new translation allows us to hear all the nuances of Leskov’s brilliant language.

The Enchanted Wanderer: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)

Vintage

Selected Tales

David Magarshack

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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.

The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales (Modern Library Classics)

Modern Library

A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for a Count, Ivan accidentally causes the death of a monk, which leads to his being ostracized by the local peasantry . . . until the dead monk returns as a ghost to guide him through trouble upon trouble.

The Enchanted Wanderer (The Art of the Novella)

Melville House

Соборяне (Soboryane) (Russian Edition)

Лесков, Николай

Dramas & Plays

Bibliotech Press

A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story. Leskov is the strangest the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller," in which Benjamin contrast the plotty machinations of the modern novel with the strange, melancholy, but also worldly-wise yarns of an older, slower era that Leskov remained in touch with. The title story here is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad and did go on to become the most popular of Shostakovich's operas. The other stories, all but one newly translated, present the most focused and finely-rendered collection of this indispensable writer currently available in English.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov (New York Review Books Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

NYRB Classics

The Cathedral Clergy is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, a series of "romantic chronicles" (as the author called them) of the imaginary town of Stargorod. Priest Savely Tuberozov, a spiritual leader of a small Russian Orthodox community (sobor) in a provincial town of Stargorod, who firmly believes in his spiritual and social mission, but not in making compromises of any kind, comes into conflict with his church seniors and the local authorities.

The Cathedral Clergy: Soboryane (Russian Edition)

Classics

JiaHu Books

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