The Garnet Bracelet

A contemporary of Lev Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, Alexander Kuprin was an outstanding prose-writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This collection includes five of his better-known stories, "Oiesya", "The Gambrinus", "Emerald", "Moloch", which brought Kuprin literary fame, and the writer's greatest artistic achievement, the long story "The Garnet Bracelet". "Love has a thousand facets, and each has its own light, its own grief, its own happiness and fragrance. Kuprin's 'The Garnet Bracelet' is among the most fragrant and positive love stories, and also the saddest," wrote Konstantin Paustovsky.