Contents:

• The Postmaster by Alexander Pushkin
• The Fair at Sorochintsi by Nikolai Gogol
• The Fatalist by Mikhail Lermontov
• The Rattling of Wheels by Ivan Turgenev
• The Peasant Marey by F. Dostoevsky
• A Captive in the Caucasus by L. Tolstoy
• The Beggar by A. Chekhov
• Makar Chudra by M. Gorky
• Light Breathing by I. Bunin
• The Old Mushroom by M. Prishvin
• The Russian Character by A. Tolstoy
• The Blizzard by M. Bulgakov
• In the Beautiful and Violent World by A. Platonov
• A Man’s Lot by M. Sholokhov
• In the Morning by S. Antonov
• Whether by Daylight by V. Astafyev
• Arcturus--Hunting Dog by Y. Kazakov
• Rogulya’s Life by V. Belov