The full scope of Colette's remarkable genius is vividly displayed in these selections from a half century of literary creation.
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The Dissolute Naive follows a young girl who, driven by curiosity and a desire for freedom, enters the world of love, passion, and social expectations, discovering the price of her own choices.
A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
"Stories from the Lost River" is a collection of stories by author Jovo Kurtović, published in 1961. The book contains 132 pages and is intended for children.
A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.
The third volume of Collected Works contains Chekhov's most extensive novella, "A Drama in Hunting," as well as a number of longer stories from the period 1885-1886. There are humoresques such as Silo in a Bag, Eh, That Audience, and A Lot of Paper, as we
The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.