Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

The stories are fun to read and since the English is right next to the Russian, it makes reading even more enjoyable and easy.

I am a native Russian speaker and as an advanced learner of English I found this book amazingly useful. It spurs your curiosity to first read the original Russian text and then see how Prof. Struve goes about translating the endless archaisms and idiosyncrasies of the 19-th century Russian.

Kudos to Prof. Struve!

As a long time student of Russian, I have found it very difficult to lay hands on dual language books like this one. On the left page is the original Russian text, and on the right is a corresponding (and very well rendered) English translation. The true beauty of this volume, though, is that the modern translation provides a bridge to the literary style from the age of the masters like Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and my personal favorite, Gogol, among many others. An even dozen stories allow intermediate to advanced Russian speakers to deepen their familiarity with this particular subset of the language. I would love to have many more books like this one. Highly recommended.

This book is an excellent collection of classic Russian short stories in the original language plus and English translation. Couldn't ask for anything better.

you can make this as easy or as challenging as you like. You learn words when they keep popping up in the stories