Short Fiction Vsevolod Garshin (best e reader for epub .txt) 📖

All became quite black before him, his mind became a blank, and he dropped the flag; but the bloodstained banner did not fall to the ground. A hand seized it and held it high to meet the approaching train. The engine-driver saw it, shut the regulator, and reversed steam. The train came to a standstill.

People jumped out of the carriages and collected in a crowd. Looking, they saw a man lying senseless on the footway, drenched in blood, and another man standing beside him with a bloodstained rag on a stick.

Vassili looked around at all; then, lowering his head, said: “Bind me; I have pulled up a rail!”

A yard porter. Each house has one or more dvorniks, whose duties are to cut and carry firewood, etc. They are also responsible for the cleanliness of the street and pavement immediately adjoining the house, and must assist the police. ↩

A squadron of cavalry (applied to Cossack troops only). ↩

A humble kind of eating-house frequented by the working classes. ↩

A silver coin of the value and size of sixpence. ↩

A cabman; used indifferently to mean the man or his conveyance. ↩

A hole cut out in the ice. ↩

A framed pane of glass in a window. It is on hinges, and can be opened for ventilation purposes when the window itself is hermetically sealed up for the winter. ↩

The people’s name for St. Petersburg. ↩

Around 44° Celsius, or 111° Fahrenheit. ↩

Around 35° Celsius, or 95° Fahrenheit. ↩

An arshin equals 2½ feet (approximately). ↩

Around 4.4 centimetres. ↩

The generic name of all officials, but more usually applied to the smaller class of Government officials. Is often used in contempt. ↩

Around 44° Celsius, or 111° Fahrenheit. ↩

A dessiatine equals 2.7 acres. ↩

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1879 and 1887 by
Vsevolod Garshin.
They were translated from Russian between 1912 and 1916 by
Rowland Smith.

This ebook was transcribed and produced for
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by
Robin Whittleton,
and is based on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin,
a painting completed in 1884 by
Ilya Repin.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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