The Death of a Girl by the Fence

A story about how a village girl changes when she comes to the city: a man’s view of girls from the village and the city. Those hats and hatpins, umbrellas and garters! How they irritate men whose main wish—as Lev Tolstoy used to say—is that a wife lives the life of her husband and herself is not a person (of course, above a person— but not a person!). And yet, as always with Averchenko, it’s witty, funny, and cruel—and in the end, everyone is unhappy…