Five stories describe a bored wife's infatuation with a servant, monastic life, an international bet, a sentry who leaves his post to save a drowning man, and ghosts

The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales

Literature & Fiction

Leskov, N.S.

Magarshack, David

United States

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Text: English, Russian (translation)

The cathedral folk

Greenwood Press

The Sealed Angel and Other Stories by Nikolay Leskov (English and Russian Edition)

History & Criticism

Univ of Tennessee Pr

The Cathedral Folk (The Hyperion Library of World Literature) (English and Russian Edition)

Contemporary

Hyperion Pr

The Enchanted Pilgrim, and Other Stories (The Hyperion Library of World Literature) (English and Russian Edition)

The Tales of N. S. Leskov.: The Musk-Ox and Other Tales

Nikolay Leskov, a contemporary of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, has remained largely unknown in the West. A master storyteller and connoisseur of language, Leskov drew on his provincial background and extensive travels throughout the empire as a businessman to depict a Russia quite different from that of his aristocratic peers, earning him the reputation of the most Russian of Russian writers. The publication of his masterpiece, The Cathedral Clergy, in 1872 marked the beginning of the author's lasting popularity among his countrymen, who were captivated by its superb storytelling, its living, breathing characters from all classes of society, its wit and humor, its fresh style, and its treatment of spiritual themes. Leskov's fictitious Old Town is a microcosm of rural Russia; his chief protagonists, Father Savely and Deacon Achilles, two of the most famous characters in Russian literature, are unforgettable. As beloved by Russians as the works of Leskov's better known fellow writers, The Cathedral Clergy offers, in its unusual subject matter and unconventional structure, a unique approach to the Russian Realist novel. This chronicle, as the author called it, is difficult to categorize. Largely realistic, even naturalistic in places, it also waxes lyrical, particularly in its gripping descriptions of nature. It is the tale of a town, an adventure story, a love story (of a happy marriage), a life of a modern martyr, a comedy as well as a tragedy. Given its vivid style, rife with archaisms, colloquialisms, mispronunciations, dialect words, folklore, songs, intentionally bad poetry, and puns, The Cathedral Clergy has proven nearly impossible to translate. This expertly annotated translation, however, now affords English speakers the pleasure of discovering a nineteenth-century Russian novel that Russian readers have long considered a classic.

The Cathedral Clergy: A Chronicle

Slavica Pub

The most perfectly 'Russian' writer of the nineteenth century, Leskov conveys a unique, memorable image of the Russia he knew: wayward and undisciplined, anarchic and perverse, yet underpinned by a profound spirituality and sense of national identity. This captures Leskov's rumbustious humour, together with his hilarious examination of Russian attitudes. It highlights the fascinating contrasts he detected between the spirit of Russia and the culture of her West European neighbors.

Five Tales (English and Russian Edition)

Dufour Editions

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: Russian

Vale of Tears and on Quakerness: And, on Quakeresses

Muckle, James Y.

Classics

Bramcote Pr

Lord Radstock was an English Christian evangelist who caused a considerable stir in Russian society in the mid-1870s. That a significant number of very influential people joined his movement alarmed conservatives in the Russian Orthodox Church and in government; that so many of their servants did so too aroused fears of undesirable egalitarianism and even revolutionary sentiment.

Schism in High Society: Granville Waldergrave Lord Radstock and His Followers

Univ of New South Wales

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