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  • Published: 24 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396743
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $26.00

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories




A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia

An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia, combining a profound religious spirit with a fascination for idiosyncratic characters, lurid crimes, comic absurdity and the joy of pure story. This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale of a passionate young woman who finds liberation from her stifling marriage in adultery, casual violence and cold-blooded murder.

  • Published: 24 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396743
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $26.00

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About the author

Nikolai Leskov

Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg. He published his first piece of fiction in 1862 in The Northern Bee, and continued on to write and publish many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), The Sealed Angel (1873), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and Lefty(1882). He died in February 1895.

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