The Seven Who Were Hanged (collection)

Leonid Andreev was a яркий writer of the Russian Silver Age who suffered from poverty and hunger in his youth. His works reflect all the suffering he experienced. In his stories, he creates terrifying characters—substitutes for monsters—ordinary people who can be scarier than any monster. This book brings together works in which the heroes become hostages of fate and suffer from hatred, rage, and helplessness. In these stories, important themes are life and death, the psychology of the hero, and the hero’s empathy. The book includes the stories “Silence,” “No Forgiveness,” “Darkness,” “A Thought,” “Ghosts,” “Rules of Good,” and “Suitcases,” as well as the novellas “The Life of Vasily Fiveyevsky” and “A Story about Seven Hanged Men.”