I. N. Potapenko teoksessaan 'Nuoruuden tunnustuksia: Romaani' sukeltaa syvälle nuoruuden haasteisiin ja tunteiden ristivedoihin. Kirja esittelee nuoren päähenkilön matkassa kypsymisen ja itsensä etsimisen prosessin, jossa ihmissuhteet, rakkaus ja identiteettiö ovat keskiössä. Kirjallisuus on tyyliltään realistista ja kuvaa tarkasti nuoruuden ristiriitoja, käyttäen runsaasti symboliikkaa ja vivahteikkaita kuvastoja. Teoksen konteksti heijastaa aikakauden sosiaalisia ja kulttuurisia ilmiöitä...

Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko was born on 30th December 1856 in the village of Fyodorovka in the Kherson Governorate of what was then the Russian Empire.After an education that included studying at the Odessa University and the St Petersburg Conservatory Potapenko began his literary career, at first in tales detailing the lives of those Ukrainians all around him.His undoubted talent soon took his canon beyond short stories to include both novels and plays.I N Potape...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imi...

Russian literature in the short story form, penned by the masters.A unique edition: beautifully formatted with optimized, easy-to-read fonts; annotated with additional content; includes a functional Table of Contents. Contains the following stories: THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. Pushkin THE CLOAK N.V. Gogol THE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. Turgenev THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. Dostoyevsky

Rivals may start out as friends. Even friends like a bit of rivalry at times, it might spur them on to achieve more themselves. It might also bring out the worst of us as competition turns into more negative vices. In this volume such vaulted authors as Louisa May Alcott, F Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, and a host of literary giants bring this unsettling genre into sharp focus. Genius in every name.1 - Short Stories About Rivalry - An Introduction2 - Bernice Bobs Her...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Translated by Michael R. KatzBetween 1890 and 1893, Ignaty Potapenko published a number of works in which he presented the Russian intelligentsia with a new role model, the “mediocre, but common-sensical man,” whose diligence and steady devotion to the improvement of society are depicted as being more productive than the reckless heroism of the regime’s most outspoken, and sometimes violent, intellectual opponents. Not a Hero introduces the twenty-first-ce...

Jahrelang war die Frau von Hauptmann Zarubkin die eleganteste und schönste aller Offiziersgattinnen auf dem jährlichen Ball. Aber dieses Jahr ahnt sie Schlimmes. Ob es Frau Shaldin schafft, sie dieses Mal auszubooten. Alles hängt wohl am einzigen Damenschneider der Stadt, Abramka Stiftik ...