Family drama in childhood, participation in the Russo-Turkish War, a mental disorder, suicide…
That’s how the life of the Russian writer Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855—1888) turned out.
In his prose, the author focused on moral and ethical questions that tormented him. His texts are unusually allegorical and piercing, highlighting society’s vices and painfully colliding with reality.
“Red Flower” is one of Garshin’s most famous stories. The main character, obsessed with the idea of uprooting all evil from the world, decides that it is concentrated in the hated red flowers…
The edition includes other works as well—“Four Days,” “The Signal,” “The Night,” “Nadezhda Nikolayevna,” “Tale about a Toad and a Rose,” “The Frog-Traveler,” and more.