Makar's Dream, and Other Stories

AND OTHER STORIES
VLADIMIR KOROLENKO
MAKAR’S DREAM AND OTHER STORIES
BY VLADIMIR KOROLENKO
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARIAN FELL
NEW YORK DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916, by DUFFIELD & CO.



VLADIMIR KOROLENKO
The writings of Vladimir Korolenko have been likened to “a fresh breeze blowing through the heavy air of a hospital.” The hospital is the pessimistic literature of the modern Russian intellectuals; the fresh breeze is the voice of the simple-hearted children of “Mother Russia.” These are for the most part tillers of the soil and conquerors of waste places; peasants, pioneers, and Siberian exiles; they often belong to the great class of “the insulted and the injured”: they suffer untold hardships, but their heads are unbowed and their hearts are full of courage and the desire for justice. Among them the great writer’s early life was spent.