The garnet bracelet : and other stories /
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| Author / Creator: | Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich), 1870-1938. |
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| Uniform title: | Selections. English. Apresyan. 2003 |
| Imprint: | Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Fredonia Books, c2003. |
| Description: | 381 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7536971 |
| Summary: | Stories contained in this volume: Moloch Olesya Night Duty The White Poodle I Was An Actor The Gambrinus Emerald The Garnet Bracelet Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a writing career, and was a friend of Maxim Gorky. He won fame with The Duel (1905), a novel of protest against the Russian military system. In 1909, Yama: The Pit, his novel dealing with prostitution in Odessa, created a sensation. Kuprin left Russia after the revolution but returned in 1937. Some of his best short stories of action and adventure appear in The Garnet Bracelet, originally published in 1917. |
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| Item Description: | Facsimile reprint of Moscow : Foreign Languages Pub. House, [1955?]. Translated from the Russian by Stepan Apresyan. |
| Physical Description: | 381 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1410102351 |