Russian Stories Everyman's Library

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich.

There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the Russian greats in English.

Women writers are particularly well represented and predominate in the last fifty years;