THE ENCHANTED PILGRIM AND OTHER STORIES ... Translated by David Magarshack. London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney: Hutchinson International Authors Limited, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this translation. Contains five tales of novella, novelette or short story length: "The Enchanted Pilgrim" (translated usually as "The Enchanted Wanderer"), "Iron Will," Deathless Golovan," "The Left-Handed Artificer," and "The Make-Up Artist." "Leskov is in some ways the odd man out among the giants of nineteenth-century Russian literature. In his own time, he refused to align himself politically with one camp of writers or the other, and so was ostracized by both. Some of his work offended the Tsar; some of it offended Stalin. Nor did he write in a signature style that stamped all his work as characteristically his own. Yet he was immediately popular with readers, who appreciated the great animal spirits and charitableness of the man and his work." - Robert Eldridge. Cloth scuffed and rubbed at edges, but a sound, good copy. (#117118).
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