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A collection of short narratives offering vividly observed episodes of everyday life, presenting self-contained tales that pivot on desire, shame, and small moral crises. The prose emphasizes sensory detail and sharply drawn character portraits, moving between comic circumstantiality and quiet pathos. Many pieces examine unstable dignity and social friction in cramped domestic or public spaces, showing how impulsive acts and petty cruelties shape outcomes. The volume’s structure favors close scenes and condensed plots that illuminate recurring human impulses—longing, pride, compassion—without preaching, leaving impressions of life’s mixture of hardship, tenderness, and ironic fortune.

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Title: The River of Life, and Other Stories

Author: A. I. Kuprin

Translator: S. S. Koteliansky

John Middleton Murry

Release date: December 3, 2018 [eBook #58406]
Most recently updated: August 25, 2021

Language: English

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THE RIVER OF LIFE


THE RIVER OF LIFE
AND OTHER STORIES

BY
ALEXANDER KUPRIN

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
S. KOTELIANSKY AND J. M. MURRY

JOHN W. LUCE AND COMPANY
BOSTON
1916