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Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. In this well translated collection, U.S. readers can sample the half-world of firebirds, angels and demons of the old Russian skaz-a narrative form which the author made famous in his own country...
SELECTED TALES (300 pp.)-Nikolai Leskov-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...wealth of literary greatness such as few centuries anywhere have equaled and none have surpassed. In an epoch that produced Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov, it is not surprising that some valuable authors were virtually overlooked by the West. One of these, almost unknown to American readers, is Nikolai Leskov (1831-95), whose output of novels, stories, memoirs and articles filled a posthumous edition of 36 volumes...
...conference trying to explain away the council's recent resolution to brand the first nation to resume bomb tests as the "enemy of humanity." The loss of face was too much for Yasui. Next day he delivered his own questionnaire in writing to the Russian Ambassador to Tokyo, Nikolai Fedorenko. His questions: "Does the Soviet government really intend to take up the power policy pursued by the imperialists? Just what is the relationship between such policy and the one of peaceful coexistence upheld by the Soviet government...
Black Sunday (Galatea-Jolly; Al), for instance, is a piece of fine Italian handiwork that atones for its ludicrous lapses with brilliant intuitions of the spectral. Taken from a tale (Fry) by Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday tells the story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse...