Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн) was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905)and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie.
Books
The duel
Her mouth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow." 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.
Povesti
A collection of the most popular and beloved of Aleksandr Kuprin's novellas and stories.