Aleksandr Kuprin: The Garnet Bracelet

This collection includes novellas and short stories from different periods. It is crowned by three of Kuprin’s most poignant works about a love that is "stronger than death, and its arrows are arrows of fire."
Kuprin knew how to write about love like no one else.
Kuprin’s stirring, mystically tinged prose—whether a novel, a novella, or a short story—reveals different facets of the feeling of love, masterfully expressed in words. The mesmerizing, tragic fantasy "Sulamith," which tells of the beautiful and pure love between King Solomon and the girl Sulamith. "The Garnet Bracelet"—a sad tale of a love lost forever, scattered to the wind by the melody of a Beethoven sonata. And, finally, "Olesya"—the story of the love between a nobleman’s son and Olesya, a girl-witch living in the forest, which was not destined to have a happy ending—whether it was dark forces, prejudices, or simply fate that tore the lovers apart forever.

Author: Alexander Kuprin

Pages: 384 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 185x120x17 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics