Short Fiction

<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-sologub">Fyodor Sologub</a> was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His work generally has a downcast outlook with recurring mystical elements, and often uses anthropomorphic objects or fantastical situations to comment on human behaviour. As well as novels (including the critically acclaimed <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-sologub/the-little-demon/john-cournos_richard-aldington">The Little Demon</a></i>), Sologub wrote over five hundred short stories, ranging in length from half-page fables to nearly novella-length tales.</p> <p>While most of his short stories were not contemporaneously translated, both John Cournos and Stephen Graham produced English compilations and contributed individual stories to publications such as <i>The Russian Review</i> and <i>The Egoist</i>. This collection comprises the best individual English translations in the public domain of Sologub’s short stories, presented in chronological order of the publication of their translation.</p>