'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Seven Hanged (Penguin Little Black Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Andreyev, Leonīd

Literary

Penguin Classic

Satan's Diary

Bernstein, Herman

History

Franklin Classics

<p>Discovered in Paris in 1987, these 80 color and 30 b&amp;w photographs, taken about 1910-14, are artistic studies of the expressionist Russian writer, his family and friends, his home, and the countryside around St. Petersburg. Includes a biographical essay and a review of the Lumiere autochrome photographic process. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Photographs by a Russian Writer Leonid Andreyev: An Undiscovered Portrait of Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Arts & Photography

Davies, Richard

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, Fiction

As in a hard shell, every human being is enclosed in a cover of body, dress, and life. Who is man? We may only conjecture. What constitutes his joy or his sorrow? We may guess only by his acts, which are oft-times enigmatic; by his laughter and by his tears, which are often entirely incomprehensible to us. And if we, Russians, who live so closely together in constant misery, understand one another so poorly that we mercilessly put to death those who should be pitied or even rewarded, and reward those who should be punished by contempt and anger -- how much more difficult is it for you Americans, to understand distant Russia? But then, it is just as difficult for us Russians to understand distant America, of which we dream in our youth and over which we ponder so deeply in our years of maturity. The Jewish massacres and famine; a Parliament and executions; pillage and the greatest heroism; "The Black Hundred," and Leo Tolstoy -- what a mixture of figures and conceptions, what a fruitful source for all kinds of misunderstandings! The truth of life stands aghast in silence, and its brazen falsehood is loudly shouting, uttering pressing, painful questions: "With whom shall I sympathize? Whom shall I trust? Whom shall I love?" In the story of The Seven Who Were Hanged I attempted to give a sincere and unprejudiced answer to some of these questions. -- Leonid Andreyev

The Seven Who Were Hanged

Wildside Pr

When the King Loses His Head and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Ayer Co. Pub

The Seven That Were Hanged

Univ Pr of the Pacific

<p>A Russian Army officer fighting in Manchuria in 1904, returns home physically and mentally crippled by the war</p>

RED LAUGH (Dedalus European Classics)

Dedalus Limited

Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf Publication date: 1916 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Little Angel (and Other Stories)

History & Criticism

Lazarus

Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich

Yarmolinsky, Abraham

Legare Street Press

His Excellency the Governor

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