Ebook {Epub PDF} Subtly Worded by Teffi

 · “Subtly Worded” includes 20 stories written between and , rounded out with two autobiographical www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Teffi was born in into an esteemed and cultured St Petersburg family. During her literary career she wrote satirical articles and plays, but by. Last year I bought Subtly Worded, a collection of short stories by Teffi (a pen name for the Russian author, Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya)/5.  · SUBTLY WORDED. By: Teffi. Publisher: Pushkin Press, pages, $ Review: A delightful collection of wry and potent short stories from a rediscovered 20th-century Russian www.doorway.ru: MALCOLM FORBES.

Subtly Worded, and Other Stories by Teffi review - a traditional Russian form is given a good hiding. Clever, funny and reckless tales from a writer courted by Rasputin and who could count Lenin. Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, scathing observer of society—she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous. Subtly Worded (stories), Pushkin Press, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The best of Teffi (story collection), New York Review Books, published simultaneously in the UK by Pushkin Press as Rasputin and Other Ironies.

Subtly Worded is a great collection of short stories by Teffi. The reader can experience her life in pre-revolution Russia, through the civil war and on to her life as an expatriate in Paris. Her tale of meeting Rasputin is wild. Many of her writings are humorous and all of them are very much worth reading. Here are deep studies of human pretence (The Hat, One of Us), hypocrisy (A Radiant Easter), brutality (The Corsican), self-deception (Will Power), jealousy (Jealousy), prejudice (The Kind that Walk), undeterred love (The Dog), madness and suicide (Thy Will), blindness (The Blind One), an intense study of death (And Time Was No More), life through the Russian revolution, meetings with Rasputin. Subtly Worded, and Other Stories by Teffi review – a traditional Russian form is given a good hiding. Clever, funny and reckless tales from a writer courted by Rasputin and who could count Lenin.