Contents

• The undertaker ;The queen of spades /Alexander Pushkin
• Old-world landowners ;The overcoat / Nikolay Gogol
• The singers ;The tryst ;Moomoo ; A lear of the steppes ;Living relics ;Old portraits /Ivan Turgenev
• An honest thief ;An unpleasant predicament ;Notes from the underground ;The peasant Marey /Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Chertogon ;The sentry / Nikolay Leskov
• Sevastopol in December, 1854 ;Three deaths ;Polikushka ;How much land does a man need? ; After the ball ;Alyosha /Leo Tolstoy
• Small fry ; The beggar ;Misery ;Vanka ;Easter eve ;Agafya ; The witch ;Volodya ;A father ;A happy ending ; The name-day party ;Gusev ;In exile ;The grasshopper ;A woman’s kingdom ;"Anna on the neck" ; The helpmate ;At home ;The schoolmistress ; Peasants ;The man in the case ;Gooseberries ;About love ;The darling ;On official duty /Anton Chekhov - -Makar’s dream /Vladimir Korolenko
• Gambrinus / Alexander Kuprin
• Twenty-six men and a girl ;Birth of a man ;Going home ;Lullaby /Maxim Gorky