Alexander Grin

Alexander Grin was writing after the revolution, living in Crimea. Content of the novel is based upon background of sea travel, heroes have portraits for the characters. Action is running in the "invented" places, whose names resemble names of the real cities in Crimea. Novel was written in 1928.

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire.Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers.

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire.Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers.

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Proizvedenija Aleksandra Grina proniknuty tonkim psihologizmom, gumanny i pojetichny. "Alye parusa" - ochen' romanticheskaja i krasivaja skazka. Ona sovsem nebol'shaja, no ochen' nasyshhennaja sobytijami i gerojami - ne po kolichestvu, a po kachestvu. Skazka o tom, kak mozhno voplotit' mechtu v zhizn' O tom, chto nam vsem vsegda sleduet verit' svoim mechtam i idti k nim. V obraze Assol' Grin sozdal takuju devushku, kakaja ostaetsja idealom dlja muzhchin romanticheskogo sklada do nashih dnej, nesmotrja na to, chto kniga byla napisana v 1922 godu. Proizvedenie, kotoroe mozhno chitat' v ljubom vozraste. "Begushhaja po volnam" - volshebnaja, fantasticheskaja i prosto potrjasajushhaja istorija, kotoraja ne ostavit nikogo ravnodushnym "Zolotaja cep'" - prikljuchencheskij roman, v kotorom glavnyj geroj sovershenno sluchajno okazyvaetsja v bogatom dome. Prichem, on popadaet tuda neobychnym obrazom - cherez labirint pod domom, i v poiskah vyhoda on brodit po podzemel'jam, poka ne okazyvaetsja v krasivoj komnate. Obitateli doma javno svjazany tajnoj, kotoruju udaetsja uznat' geroju lish' k koncu povestvovanija. A sama tajna nerazryvno svjazana s najdennoj kogda-to hozjainom doma tjazheloj zolotoj cep'ju. Grin sil'no i hitroumno zakrutil sjuzhet i do konca chtenija derzhit v naprjazhenii chitatelej. Illjustrirovannoe izdanie

Explore the nook and crannies of the mysterious land created by Alexander Grin and overlayed seamlessly with our own - Grinlandia. Enjoy the journey down the paths of the sacred and the profane, the strange and the frightening, the hideous and the dazzling as you enter Terra Phantasticum.

Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskij, izvestnyj pod psevdonimom Aleksandr Grin, javljaetsja odnim iz samykh chitaemykh i ljubimykh prozaikov v Rossii, pro kotorogo Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin skazal: "Kogda dni nachinajut pylitsja i kraski bleknut, ja beru Grina. Ja raskryvaju ego na ljuboj stranitse. Tak vesnoj protirajut okna v dome. Vse stanovitsja svetlym, jarkim, vse snova tainstvenno volnuet, kak v detstve". S tvorchestvom Grina russkij chitatel nachinaet znakomstvo s rannego detstva, chtoby na protjazhenii vsej zhizni, vozvraschajas k nemu snova i snova, kazhdyj raz nakhodit dlja sebja nechto novoe i udivitelnoe. V jarkikh, volnujuschikh, uvlekatelnykh proizvedenijakh otrazilas slozhnaja, polnaja prikljuchenij sudba pisatelja, ego neischerpaemaja fantazija i bezgranichnaja ljubov k morju. V nastojaschij sbornik, pomimo znamenitoj povesti "Alye parusa", voshli naibolee izvestnye i ljubimye mnogimi pokolenijami chitatelej rasskazy Aleksandra Grina, sozdannye im v raznye gody.

This is an unusual romantic love story about a ship captain who falls in love with a poor girl. It shows that you have to believe in your dreams and that miracles can happen!The text has been adapted for foreign readers who have B1 level Russian (Intermediate) and includes exercises to check understanding. Stress marks have been added to the text throughout to help pronunciation. There are also interesting facts about the author's life. This is not simply reading.. it's 'klassnoe chtenie'!

Two writers, two styles, two approaches to one subject. What if a human being could fly?Join the two lions of Russian/Soviet science fiction and fantasy - Alexander Belyaev and Alexander Grin, as they explore the possibility of a flying man from their unique viewpoints.