Mews small biography on leonid
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The Little Angel
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AND OTHER STORIES
TRANSLATED FROM
THE RUSSIAN OF
L. N. ANDREYEV
By W. H. LOWE
ALFRED A. KNOPF
NEW YORK MCMXVI
Contents
PREFACE
Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in After his father’s death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both Petrograd and Moscow Universities, graduating in Law in During this period he endured great hardship—often even actual hunger—and was the victim of deep melancholia. His first writings were unsuccessful; and, for a time, he devoted himself to painting. Later he came into touch with the Russian press as police-court reporter for a leading newspaper.
Then “Silence” was published, and brought him immediate recognition. This terrible story may serve as an example of his method. The silence of the frightened girl, dying with her secret, and of her mother, stricken, through shock, with paralysis, crushes the pride of the priest whose training has so stiffened his nature that he cannot express or welcome affection. He cries for help; he entreats them to show him pity. His daughter lies dead; his wife motionless. An abstract idea is the germ of each tale; around it are woven both characters and incident&md
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"The Forged Coupon"
The Forged Coupon
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Kolotovka + Volga Region + other locations
PLOT SUMMARY: The Forged Coupon is about a boy forging a bond coupon to repay his friend and the chain of events that this sets off. The novella is split into two parts. The first part concerns the increasingly tragic wreckage of lives caused by the forged coupon. A boy and his friend commit the forgery after his father refuses to give him the extra three rubles necessary to pay back his friend for the movies. The forged coupon is broken into legitimate currency at a photography shop via the purchase of a cheap picture frame. The husband of the woman who sold the frame rebukes her for having been fooled, the initial instance of a theme of patriarchal abuse, and uses the coupon to buy firewood off a peasant. The peasant then goes to a tavern and is arrested when he attempts to use the coupon. The shopkeeper pays off his building’s porter, and the two of their testimonies lead to the dismissal of the peasant’s formal legal case against the shopkeeper. The ways that the characters go on to respond to this sequence of events spiral into a calamitous collection of stories that include impoverishment, incarceration, femicide, child murder, an
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