# The Beggar and Other Stories

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- Book: [The Beggar and Other Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaito-gazdanov/the-beggar-and-other-stories) ([The Beggar and Other Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaito-gazdanov/the-beggar-and-other-stories.md))
- Authors: [Gaito Gazdánov](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaito-gazdanov), [Bryan Karetnyk](https://www.bookquiver.com/bryan-karetnyk)
- Publisher: pushkin_collection
- ISBN: 978-17-8227-401-8
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-09-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf. In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar....