Stories: 'The Little Angel', 'Silence', 'In the Fog', 'The Abyss'

In Leonid Andreev’s collection of stories, the writer’s dramatic stories are gathered. All these works are about the goal and meaning of life, good and evil, the story of how all that is humane in a person dies—does it happen instantly, as in “The Abyss,” or gradually, as in the story “In a Fog.” If there is any hope for a miracle, as in “Little Angel,” or for the main character’s repentance, as in “Silence,” it is only a phantom.