The Signal part 4
Semyon also got up. “Neighbor,” he called, “why do you lose your temper?” But his neighbor did not look round, and kept on his...
The Signal part 3
Two months passed, and Semyon commenced to make the acquaintance of his neighbors, the track-walkers on either side of him. One was a very...
The Signal part 2
“You are Ivanov?” he said.
“Yes, your Excellency.”
“How do you come to be here?”
Semyon told him all.
“Where are you off to?”
“I cannot tell you, sir.”
“Idiot!...
The Signal part 1
Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888)
Garshin was all his life subject to melancholia. His work, consisting of only a score of stories, was influenced by his condition,...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 8
Bear with me, my dear Will, until I have told you I have written this letter and what it means. I have concealed one...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 7
At first I was frightened, and fought against it as against something that might grow upon me. I reproached myself for disloyalty in thought....
A Letter and a Paragraph part 6
It was so at the beginning, in the incredible happiness of the first year, and even after the boy`s birth. Do you know, it...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 5
Strangest of all this, that the mad agony of grief, the passion of desolation that came upon me when our long partnership was dissolved...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 4
It was a small matter, but the friendship begun in manly and helpful kindness has gone on for twenty-two years in mutual faith and...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 3
I could only silently pray that he would “give me an easy one,” and that I should not disgrace myself in the doing of...
