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Book Information: Steel Flea, the

Steel Flea, the (1881) [Short Story]
by Nikolai (N.S.) Leskov Rating: Weighted - 7.9 / Average - 8.0 of 10 (1 votes) (Rate!)
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Amazed by a tiny, mechanical steel flea made by the British, the tsar challenges his own craftsmen to create something even more wonderful.

Original title: Левша (Сказ о тульском косом Левше и о стальной блохе)
Alternative titles: The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea
Original languages: Russian

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction

This work is a subwork of the following works :
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2005) [Anthology]
Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Alexander Pushkin , Anton Chekhov , Leo Tolstoy , Ivan Bunin , Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Mikhail Bulgakov , Yevgeny Zamyatin , Ivan Turgenev , Nikolai Gogol , Isaac Babel , Daniil Kharms , Nikolai (N.S.) Leskov , Mikhail Zoshchenko , Varlam Shalamov , Sergei Dovlatov , Yuri Buida , Vasily Shukshin , Leonid Dobychin , Andrei Platonov , Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal , Nadezhda Teffi , Mikhail Lermontov , Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Vera Inber , Asar Eppel