Excerpt from The Sweet-Scented Name: And Other Fairy Tales, Fables and Stories Russia is the land of such short tales. Long novels are exceptional and not very popular. Nearly all Russian writers of note to-day are either poets or essayists or short story writers. Tchekhof, who wrote some twenty volumes of little tales, really made the short story popular. I have made a way for this sort of writing, he is reported to have said to Kuprin. After me it will be easy for others to go on writing such tales. The prophecy has been ...
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Excerpt from The Sweet-Scented Name: And Other Fairy Tales, Fables and Stories Russia is the land of such short tales. Long novels are exceptional and not very popular. Nearly all Russian writers of note to-day are either poets or essayists or short story writers. Tchekhof, who wrote some twenty volumes of little tales, really made the short story popular. I have made a way for this sort of writing, he is reported to have said to Kuprin. After me it will be easy for others to go on writing such tales. The prophecy has been fulfilled. More than eighty per cent of the fiction published since his death has been collections of little stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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