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table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Foreword
  4. Short Fiction
    1. Easter Night
    2. A Saghálinian
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
    3. Sketches of a Siberian Tourist
      1. I: The Cormorants
      2. II: “The Hollow Below the Devil’s Finger”
      3. III: “The Slayer”
      4. IV: A Voltairian of Siberia
      5. V: The Exterminator
      6. VI: Yevséyitch
      7. VII: The Inspector
      8. VIII: “Iván, Aged Thirty-Eight Years”
      9. IX: The Investigation Continued
    4. The Blind Musician
      1. I: The Blind Infant—The Family
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
      2. II: The Sources of Musical Feeling—The Blind Boy and the Melody
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
        10. X
      3. III: The First Friendship
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
      4. IV: Blindness—Vague Questions
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
      5. V: Love
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
      6. VI: The Crisis—An Attempt at Synthesis
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
      7. VII: Intuition
        1. I
        2. II
      8. Epilogue
    5. In Two Moods
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
      12. XII
      13. XIII
      14. XIV
      15. XV
      16. XVI
      17. XVII
      18. XVIII
      19. XIX
      20. XX
      21. XXI
      22. XXII
      23. XXIII
      24. XXIV
      25. XXV
    6. The Shades, a Fantasy
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
    7. Lights
    8. The Last Ray
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    9. The Old Bell-Ringer
    10. Makar’s Dream
    11. The Murmuring Forest
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    12. In Bad Company
      1. I: The Ruins
      2. II: Queer Characters
      3. III: My Father and I
      4. IV: I Make Some New Acquaintances
      5. V: My Acquaintanceship Is Continued
      6. VI: Among the “Grey Stones”
      7. VII: Tiburtsi Appears on the Scene
      8. VIII: Autumn
      9. IX: The Doll
      10. X: Conclusion
    13. The Day of Atonement
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
    14. Birds of Heaven
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
    15. Isn’t It Terrible?
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
    16. “Necessity”
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    17. On the Volga
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    18. The Village of God
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
  5. Endnotes
  6. Colophon
  7. Uncopyright

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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1879 and 1900 by
Vladimir Korolenko.
They were translated from Russian between 1887 and 1919 by
Aline Delano, Sergius Stepniak, William Westall, Thomas Seltzer, Marian Fell, Clarence Manning and The Russian Review.

This ebook was produced for the
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and is based on transcriptions produced between 2004 and 2020 by
George Kennan, David Starner, Keith M. Eckrich and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Project Gutenberg (The Blind Musician, The Shades, A Phantasy and Birds of Heaven, and Other Stories)
and
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and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (The Vagrant, and Other Stories, The Blind Musician, The Shades, a Phantasy, Makar’s Dream, and Other Stories and Birds of Heaven, and Other Stories)
and the
HathiTrust Digital Library.

The cover page is adapted from
The Forest in Winter,
a painting completed in 1883 by
Ivan Shishkin.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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May 14, 2021, 6:07 p.m.
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