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.

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

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.

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