The Garnet Bracelet and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781410102355)

Stories contained in this volume: Moloch Olesya Night Duty The White Poodle I Was An Actor The Gambrinus Emerald The Garnet Bracelet Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a writing career, and was a friend of Maxim Gorky. He won fame with The Duel (1905), a novel of protest against the Russian military system. In 1909, Yama: The Pit, his novel dealing with prostitution in Odessa, created a sensation. Kuprin left Russia after the revolution but returned in 1937. Some of his best short stories of action and adventure appear in The Garnet Bracelet, originally published in 1917.

Author: Alexander Kuprin
ISBN-10: 1410102351
ISBN-13: 9781410102355
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2003
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 2.48h x 10.10w x 0.94d