A Fun Adventure

“One writer broadly sketches various episodes on huge canvases, another describes the revolution, the third military returns, and the fourth is busy with romantic escapades and problems. The author, due to special heart properties and humorous inclinations, describes a person — how he lives, what he does, and where, for example, he strives to go” — this is how Mikhail Zoshchenko wrote in the introduction to “Sentimental Stories,” which are included in this collection. The works of the talented master of humorous storytelling and recognized classic became a symbol of post-revolutionary Russia. His cheerful, touching, dreamlike, and sometimes sad works — where everything is so familiar and everyday — remain relevant at all times. This collection also includes: the novella “Mikhail Sinyagin” — about an intellectual unadapted to the realities of the new life — and satirical stories from the collection “Joyful Life.”