Browse books

Олеся

By Александр Иванович Куприн

Cover of Олеся

Cover: Polesie Landscape, 1884 by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

A city writer staying in the forests of Polesie falls in love with Olesya, a girl from the woods whom the villagers call a witch. Kuprin's early story sets their brief happiness against the suspicion of the village. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Start reading

Table of contents

  1. 1: I
  2. 2: II
  3. 3: III
  4. 4: IV
  5. 5: V
  6. 6: VI
  7. 7: VII
  8. 8: VIII
  9. 9: IX
  10. 10: X
  11. 11: XI
  12. 12: XII
  13. 13: XIII
  14. 14: XIV