Nikolai Leskov in the Hudson Review











Summer 2011

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Two Stories by Nikolai Leskov
The Pearl Necklace and The Flaming Patriot

"Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) was born in the town of Orel, some two hundred miles southwest of Moscow...In 1865 Dostoevsky printed one of his famous stories, The Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk...Tolstoy and Chekhov were among his admirers...His medium as a storyteller was living Russian speech, which he rendered in all its rich variety, and which, incidentally, often makes hime extremely difficult to translate."  -Richard Pevear

Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges
Rose
Buenos Aires

Transtromer

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