Leonid N. Andreyev

Titles in Fiction category:

• Judas Iscariot and Others

  Jesus Christ had often been warned that Judas Iscariot was a man of very evil repute, and that He ought to beware of him. Some of the disciples, who had been in Judaea, knew him well, while others had heard much about him from various sources, and there was none who had a good word for h ...

• Man Who Found the Truth, The

  I was twenty-seven years old and had just maintained my thesis for the degree of Doctor of Mathematics with unusual success, when I was suddenly seized in the middle of the night and thrown into this prison. I shall not narrate to you the details of the monstrous crime of which I was acc ...

• Ocean, The

  A misty February twilight is descending over the ocean. The newly fallen snow has melted and the warm air is heavy and damp. The northwestern wind from the sea is driving it silently toward the mainland, bringing in its wake a sharply fragrant mixture of brine, of boundless space, of un ...

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Crushed Flower, The    

  CHAPTER I

• Lazarus    

  I

• Love, Faith and Hope

  He loved.

• On The Day of the Crucifixion    

  On that terrible day, when the universal injustice was committed and Jesus Christ was crucified in Golgotha among robbers--on that day, from early morning, Ben-Tovit, a tradesman of Jerusalem, suffered from an unendurable toothache. His toothache had commenced on the day before, toward e ...

• Serpent's Story, The    

  Hush! Hush! Hush! Come closer to me. Look into my eyes!

• Story Which Will Never Be Finished, A    

  Exhausted with the painful uncertainty of the day, I fell asleep, dressed, on my bed. Suddenly my wife aroused me. In her hand a candle was flickering, which appeared to me in the middle of the night as bright as the sun. And behind the candle her chin, too, was trembling, and enormous ...