Charlotte Moore

The Russian literary celebrity who begged Tolstoy to spare Prince Andrei

A review of Subtly Worded, by Teffi. Her remarkable short stories, full of characters that teeter on the edge of an abyss, deserve to be better known

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  • Subtly Worded

    Teffi

    Pushkin Press, pp. 240

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