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A suite of intense short stories that probe human isolation, despair, and the collision of inner torment with social and political turmoil. Many narratives focus on solitary figures whose faith, guilt, or fanaticism slide into obsession or madness, rendered with grotesque and symbolic imagery. Several pieces recast biblical personae to explore moral ambiguity and divided selves, while other vignettes evoke revolutionary fervor and popular unrest in lyrical prose-poems. Across realist and surreal modes the collection interrogates freedom, fate, and the fragile boundary between sanity and ruin.

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Title: When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories

Author: Leonid Andreyev

Translator: Archibald J. Wolfe

Release date: August 4, 2015 [eBook #49595]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously provided by the Internet Archive.)

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When the King Loses his Head

AND OTHER STORIES

by Leonid Andreyev

TRANSLATED BY

ARCHIBALD J. WOLFE

NEW YORK
INTERNATIONAL BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920



Contents

Preface
When the King Loses his Head
Judas Iscariot
Lazarus
Life of Father Vassily
Ben-Tobith
The Marseillaise
Dies Irae