This dual-language anthology features more than a dozen, 20th-century tales translated into English for the first time. Contents include "The Fugitive" żeby Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" aby D. Mamin-Sibiryak, and "The Life Granted" by Alexander Grin, plus stories aby Vasily Grossman, Alexander Kuprin, Arkady Gaidar, and others.