Tolstoy's Short Fiction (Norton Critical Editions) » (2nd Edition)

Michael R. Katz, is C. V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. He has translated and edited the Norton Critical Editions of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children. He has also translated Alexander Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, N. G. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done?, Dostoevsky’s Devils, Druzhinin’s Polinka Saks, Artsybashev’s Sanin, and Jabotinsky’s The Five.

Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale.