The Duel - Softcover
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About the Author:
Alexander Kuprin (1870–1938) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer, and adventurer who was dubbed the “true successor to Chekhov” by Tolstoy, and the “Russian Kipling” by Vladimir Nabokov.
Joshua Billings’ translation of Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin is available in the Art of the Novella series.
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Joshua Billings’ translation of Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin is available in the Art of the Novella series.
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"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
--Ron Rosenbaum, "The New York Observer"
"Small wonders."
--"Time Out London"
"""[F]irst-rate...astutely selected and attractively packaged...indisputably great works."
--Adam Begley, "The New York Observer"
"I've always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it's the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher's fine 'Art of the Novella' series."
--"The New Yorker"
"The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed--tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are."
--KQED (NPR San Francisco)
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1961
- ISBN 10 0451500458
- ISBN 13 9780451500458
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
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