Children of the Dungeon

"The School Library" introduces its listeners to the works of the wonderful Russian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko and offers to listen to his most famous novella, “Children of the Underground.”

The image of childhood is one of the main themes in Korolenko’s work. This writer, better than anyone else, psychologically accurately and deeply depicts the process of a person’s becoming in childhood—and the time of the child’s “early impressions” he considered the most valuable period of any person’s life.

In “Children of the Underground,” there are eternal themes of friendship, love, and good. The story makes you empathize with and sympathize for the young heroes and their difficult, full of deprivation, life.