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Beware of Bored Women!

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov

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ESPECIALLY if you are the one to damn them into a life of boredom. I sought out this short story after being utterly enthralled by the 2016 Florence Pugh tour-de-force Lady Macbeth. If you are a sucker for a brutal period drama chock full of female desperation-disguised-as-power, then hustle your bustle to your  nearest ye olde video rental and check. it. out. The film is phenomenal, and I was immediately curious about the source material! A little Wikipedia creeping led me to Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk […]

Tales and Tales

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I wrote a review earlier in the year for one novella out of this collection ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” since that was being made into a movie and I wanted to get ahead of the game. But then I never saw that movie, so who knows. Anyway, here’s the rest of the collection. There’s a bunch of longish stories in this book and a handful of much shorter ones. The title story is about 120 pages long and the shortest is like nine, so there’s […]

Shakespeare of Siberia….but not really

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov

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There is a new movie of this novella coming out sometime soon. It should be interesting. This is a relatively obscure Russian writer (at least outside of knowing circles) and I have had this book for awhile before I sat down to read this. Something is to be said about sitting down to read short stories that generally cap out at 50-100 pages. So picking up one of his novellas make more sense. As with a lot of stories, a young woman is married off […]



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