Mimi's Marriage

Mimi's Marriage

The genius of Turgeniev and Tolstoy, of Dostoevsky and Gorky, has given fame and distinction to the Russian novel, but while the principal works of these great writers and their fellows are well known to English readers, the women novelists of Russia have been left almost untouched by the translator. Yet there are many authoresses of talent in the literary world of Russia at the present day; notably Madame Dmitrieva, born 1859, of peasant parents. Her first novel was entitled From the Heart not from the Head. Two of her best-known books are Mityukha, the Schoolmaster, and In Various Directions. She has said that "her first school was[Pg vi] the village street, and her teachers, the grey old village folk and dire need." Other writers of ability are Olga Chumina (born 1864), who has translated several poems by Francis Coppe, and also produced a play entitled The Flicker that Went Out; Madame Smirnov, author of the powerful novel, The Salt of the Earth; M. V. Krestovskaya (born 1862), whose stories of theatrical life have the charm of simplicity and truth, and whose Woman-Artist appeared in the Journal des Dbats; Madame Verbitskaya, who attained an extraordinary popularity with her daring novel The Keys of Happiness; and Madame Lidia Ivanovna Veselitskaya, who, under the pseudonym of V. Mikoulitch, has written sketches of Russian society which are full of humour and clever characterisation. The best known are the series entitled[Pg vii] Mimi's Marriage, Mimi (or Mimotchka) at the Springs, and Mimi Poisons Herself, which have been translated into no less than six European languages. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56719
Author: Veselitskaia, Lidiia Ivanovna
Release Date: Mar 11, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Wright, C. T. Hagberg (Charles Theodore Hagberg), 1862-1940