Konstantin Paustovsky

The Russian literary master's memoirs provide a vivid portrait of life in the U.S.S.R

The Story of a Life

Douglas Smith

Story of a Life

Selected Stories

tập truyện ngắn

Bông hồng vàng và bình minh mưa

повести и рассказы

Встречные корабли

CONTENTSPrecious DustInscription On a RockArtificial FlowersMy First Short StoryLightningCharacters RevoltThe Story of a NovelThe Heart RemembersTreasury of Russian WordsVocabulary NotesIncident at "Alshwang Stores"Some Sidelights on WritingAtmosphere and Little Touches"White Nights"Fountain-Head of ArtThe Night CoachA Book of Biographical SketchesThe Art of Perceiving the WorldIn a LorryA Word to Myself

The Golden Rose

Years of Hope

Тарас Шевченко

Story of a Life: In that dawn

Story of a Life: Slow approach of thunder

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation. 'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph 'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it was written - and the day it was lived' Julian Barnes In 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union's most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history. Eventually published over six volumes, it would cement Paustovsky's reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Newly translated by Guggenheim fellow Douglas Smith, Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three books of Paustovsky's epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovsky's Ukrainian youth, struggling with a family on the verge of collapse and the first flourishes of creative ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on Russia's frontlines and then as a journalist covering the country's violent spiral into revolution, The Story of a Life offers a portrait of an artistic journey like no other. As richly dramatic as the great Russian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, but all the more powerful for its first-hand testament to one of history's most chaotic eras, The Story of Life is a uniquely dazzling achievement of modern literature.

Volumes 1–3

Volumes 1-3

Sobranie sochineniĭ v devi͡ati tomakh: Skazki ; Ocherki ; Literaturnye portrety

Story of a Life: Years of hope, translated by Manya Harari and Andrew Thomson

L'Histoire d'une vie ...: Une jeunesse inquiète

Konstantin Paustovsky

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