Volume 34, Number 7 · April 23, 1987
Justice for Leskov
By Irving Howe
WORKS BY LESKOV IN ENGLISHNo single volume satisfactorily brings together Leskov's best work.
The Amazon and Other Stories
by Nikolai Leskov, translated with an introduction by David Magarshack
Hyperion, 282 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The Musk-Ox and Other Tales
by Nikolai Leskov, translated with an introduction by R. Norman
Hyperion, 208 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The Sentry and Other Stories
by Nikolai Leskov, translated by A.E. Chamot, introduction by Edward Garnett
Hyperion, 320 pp., $10.00 (paper)
All of the above are reprints from Hyperion Press, Westport,
The Cathedral Folk
by Nikolai Leskov, translated by Isabel Hapgood
Hyperion, 439 pp., $22.00
A good but insufficient selection, well translated
The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales of Nikolai Leskov
by Nikolai Leskov, translated by David Magarshack
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Enchanted Wanderer
by Nikolai Leskov, translated by A. G. Paschkoff, introduction by Maxim Gorky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (out of print)
Carefully edited, well annotated, but only a few selections are
Satirical Stories of Nikolai Leskov
by Nikolai Leskov, translated and edited by William Edgerton
Pegasus (out of print)
Five Tales
by Nikolai Leskov, translated with an introduction by Michael Shotton
Angel Books (London), distributed in US by Dufour Editions, 189 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Some good translations and helpful annotations.
The Sealed Angel and Other Stories
by Nikolai Leskov, translated and edited by K.A. Lantz
University of Tennessee Press, 251 pp., $23.95
A storyteller is very different from someone who writes a lot of stories. A storyteller celebrates that 'gusto in art' which, according to Hazlitt, is 'the power or passion to define an object'—that active pleasure in composition, a kind of conquering, which the story conveys and the audience is trained to share.
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