The Garnet Bracelet. Duel. Olesya

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin is an outstanding master of words, a heir to the realistic traditions of Russian classical literature. Absolute accuracy of details and subtle lyricism, "a precise and generously articulate language without excess" (Bunin), simplicity, clarity, and depth are... the distinguishing features of Kuprin's style. Literary recognition did not come to him immediately. At the age of twenty-three, Aleksandr Kuprin, a lieutenant of the infantry regiment of the Dnieper, retired, after which he changed numerous professions: he worked as a reporter, grew tobacco, served as a manager at a construction site, was a land surveyor, a psalmist, and an actor, and studied dentistry... These diverse activities provided him with rich material for creativity, in which life was reflected with optical precision in all its multifacetedness. Admiration for the incomprehensible beauty and variety of the world and inexhaustible love of life combine in his work with an acute sensitivity to the pain of others and a complex palette of subtle emotional experiences. This edition includes the most famous works of Aleksandr Kuprin, including the novellas "Olesya", "The Garnet Bracelet", "The Pit", "The Duel", as well as the stories "The White Poodle", "The Lilac Bush", "The Blue Star", and others.