The Garnet Bracelet And Other Stories Av Alexander Kuprin

Stories contained in this volume:MolochOlesyaNight DutyThe White PoodleI Was An ActorThe GambrinusEmeraldThe Garnet BraceletAleksandr 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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