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  • The Top 10 Short Stories - Sci-Fi - The Europeans

    by Jules Verne, Alexander Kuprin, H G Wells ...
    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity

    by Alexandre Kuprin ...
    King Solomon had not yet attained middle age—forty-five; yet the fame of his wisdom and comeliness, of the grandeur of his life and the pomp of his court, had spread far beyond the limits of Palestine. In Assyria and Phœnicia; in Lower and Upper Ægypt; from ancient Tabriz to Yemen and from Ismar unto Persepolis; on the coast of the Black Sea and upon the islands of the Mediterranean,—all uttered ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity

    by Alexandre Kuprin ...

    $7.28 CAD

  • The Duel

    by Alexander Kuprin ...
    Translated by Josh Billings ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    About This BookHer mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer — here presented in a dazzling new translation — is an absorbing account of the final days of Czarist Russia.An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

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    Church, The - A Short Story Collection

    From devout priests to sacreligious necromancers and everything in between

    by Henry James, D H Lawrence, Vladimir Korolenko, Mary Cholmondeley.wav, Frederick Cowles, Anatole France, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreyev, Alicia Ramsay, Mary Butts, Vernon Lee, W F Harvey, F G Loring, Honore de Balzac, R H Malden ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    Faith is a wonderful thing. Whether its faith in each other or to a God, Gods, or whatever entity you believe in, it brings a familiar comfort and sustenance to heart, soul and mental well-being.Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Passions: Volume 21 Bonus

    by Joan Cabot, Pierre Louys, Bob Sterling, Anonymous, Homer G. Thomas, Alexandre Kuprin ...
    Dive into the sultry undercurrents of Victorian erotica with this meticulously curated anthology from the Victorian Passions series, volume 21. This collection gathers seven rare gems of forbidden desire, each a testament to the era's masterful blend of literary finesse and unbridled sensuality. From the bold escapades in The Adventures of Claudia to the scandalous family intrigues of The She ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    50 Stories from Russia's Greatest Authors

    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Notes From the Underground, First Love, The Queen of Spades, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Nose, The Cloak, A Dead Body, A Russian Christmas Party and others

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol ...
    Narrated by Michael Goodrick, Peter Coates, Joe Phoenix, Richard Williams, Mike Hogan, Antony Bottoms, Jason Dettrey, Sharon Plummer, Judy Kriz, Trevor O' Hare, John Lingua, Belinda Hillman, John Broun, Rick Walz, Mark Bowen ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 43 min

    This book collects a magnificent set of works by Russian classical authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov. Each original story, springing from a common creative heritage, delivers a glimpse of the immortal Russian Soul and has influenced modern literary trends. These stories are interesting to their core and will bring pleasure to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Slav Soul and Other Stories

    by Alexander Kuprin ...
    The farther I go back in my memory of the past, and the nearer I get to remembering incidents connected with my childhood, the more confused and doubtful do my recollections become. Much, no doubt, was told me afterwards, in a more conscious stage of my existence, by those who, with loving care, noticed my early doings. Perhaps many of the things that I recall never happened to me; I heard or read ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Stories with Wartime Massacres

    by Alexander Kuprin, Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Korolenko ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $6.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Silver Wolf, The

    by Alexander Kuprin ...
    Narrated by Fred Wolinsky ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    A peasant's son leaves his family after being drafted into the army and returns far more different than anyone ever expected. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pit [Yama]

    by Alexander Kuprin ...
    ALEXANDER KUPRIN (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism.His best-known novel, The Pit (Yama), is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA has been called "the first and last honest work on the subject of prostitution."It deals with the red-light ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Russian Stories Discussing Religion and Life

    by Vladimir Korolenko, Alexander Kuprin, Leo Tolstoy ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $6.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus