Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students) [Paperback]

Lesli Slava Larocco (Author), M. Zoschenko (Author), Slava Paperno (Author), Slava Paperno (Author), M. Zoschenko (Author)

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Text: Russian, English

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• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: Slavica Pub (June 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893572063
• ISBN-13: 978-0893572068
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,734,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good intermediate Russian reading, April 21, 2010

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This review is from: Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students) (Paperback)

This books consists of twelve relatively short (three to five pages, roughly) stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a Soviet satirist. His style reminds me a little of Mark Twain's short stories - deadpan but exaggerated. These stories describe life in communal apartments and other aspects of Soviet life in a humorous fashion -- for example, the squabbles of communal apartment dwellers over the electric bill. The simplicity of the stories (there is not a lot of internal thought processes described, and there is a lot of dialogue) make it fairly easy for a low-intermediate student to read and enjoy, with the help of the annotations. One warning - Zoshchenko uses a lot of slang terminology which is likely to be unfamiliar to such readers, and can take a little unraveling.