About This Book
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like
quick, hurried kisses: You must absolutely go through with the duel
tomorrow.
This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer -- here
presented in a dazzling new translation -- is an absorbing account of
the final days of Czarist Russia.**
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An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own
soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself
obliged to fight a duel -- over something he realizes is meaningless. As
the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be
a luminous depiction of the end of an era.
This Is A Melville House "HybridBook"
HybridBooks are a union of print and electronic media: Purchasers of
this print edition also receive Illuminations--additional curated
material that expand the world of Kuprin's novella through text and
illustrations--at no additional charge.
To obtain the Illuminations for The Duel by Alexander Kuprin,
simply scan the QR code (or follow a url) found at the back of the print
book, which leads to a page where you can download a file for your
preferred electronic reading device.
Illuminations contains writings by Leo Tolstoy - Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Alexander Pushkin - Rudyard Kipling - Abraham Yarmolinsky - Ivan
Turgenev - Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov - Mikhail Lermontov - Alexandre
Dumas - Thomas Hardy - Emily Dickinson - Rudolphe Raspe - Emily
Dickinson and short stories by O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant and Alexander
Kuprin.
Illustrations include: Victor Adams - Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour -
Valery Ivanovich Jacoby - Eugene Delacroix and others.
Also included is The Duelist's Supplement - "The Other Duel: Fiction
and Poetry Concerning Duels"
