Embers of a Revolution

Embers of a Revolution

""Everything is subordinated to two main requirements -- humanitarian ideals and fidelity to life. This is the secret of the marvelous simplicity of Russian literary art."" -- THOMAS SELTZER These stories -- by such Russian masters as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, Nikolay V. Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Alexsandr S. Pushkin, Feodor Sologub, and Leonid Andreyev -- were collected and published in English in the years just before the Russian Revolution. In a very real sense, they sum to show the revolution that would come: food for thought from Russian masters of the literary arts.
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