The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories

This Is a Borzoi Book

Published by Alfred A. Knopf

Translation copyright © 2013 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Introduction copyright © 2013 by Richard Pevear

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division

of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada

Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Great Britain, in somewhat different

form, by Impress Books Ltd., Devon, in 2012.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Portions of this work were originally published in the following: “The Pearl

Necklace” and “A Flaming Patriot” in The Hudson Review (Summer 2011); “The

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” in The Hudson Review (Winter 2012); and “The

Spirit of Madame de Genlis” in The Threepenny Review (Winter 2013).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leskov, N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich), 1831–1895.

[Works. English. Selections. 2013]

The enchanted wanderer and other stories / by Nikolai Leskov; translated by

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

pages ; cm

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-0-307-96236-2

I. Pevear, Richard, [date], translator. II. Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator. III. Title.

PG3337.L5A255 2013

891.73′3—dc23

2012025416

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the

product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to

actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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