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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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A FRIENDLY LETTER TO LENIN, NINOCHKA, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES by Arkady Averchenko; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: The King of Laughter; Preface: Averchenko's Humor Rediscovered:The Translator's Introduction; Art & Critique; An Astonishing Incident; At the French Centennial Exhibit; Ichneumones; Rat on a Serving Tray; Kids; Galochka; In the Evening; Kids; Waiting for Dinner; Love & Deceit; A Dude; Petukhov, the Rooster; Somber Shrovetide; Illustration; The Lie; The Secret; Men & Women; Connoisseur of the Female Soul; Friendship; Men |
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Mr. Vopyagin's Two CrimesMy Wife; Illustration; Ninochka; The Mosaic; Political Satire; A Feeble Head; A Friendly Letter to Lenin from Arkady Averchenko; A Meeting; A Progressive Tax; Sentinmental Stories; An Ordinary Woman; Of Old Age; Seven O'Clock in the Evening; Society; A Boulder Around One's Neck; A Foursome; A Sentimental Romance; Easter Dreams; The Album; The Lonesome Gentleman; Trick of a Great Movie; The Fourth Estate; My Student; Scythe Upon a Rock; Spermine; The Golden Age; Yellow Journalism; The Professions; A Professional's Grief; Carving Up Things; Rotten Through and Through |
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The IncurablesThe Knight of Industry; The Vacuum Cleaner |
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This work is the first English translation of a selected collection of short stories by Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925), the prolific writer of satirical and humorous prose in prerevolutionary Russia |
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Averchenko, Arkadiĭ, 1881-1925 -- Translations into English
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Averchenko, Arkadiĭ, 1881-1925 fast |
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Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English
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FICTION -- General.
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Short stories, Russian
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Languages & Literatures.
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Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures.
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Translations
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Electronic book
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9780773419056 |
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0773419055 |
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