can indeed be made to be more thrilling than fiction, and you surely are the master of this art," Leo Tolstoy wrote Leskov in a letter. "The Russian people acknowledge Leskov as the Most Russian of all Russian writers; a man who knew the Russian people better and more deeply than anybody else," Mirsky maintained. Explaining why Leskov had not yet come into his own with English-speaking readers, in spite of the admiration for him of some English critics, like Maurice Baring, Mirsky wrote in 1926: "The Anglo-Saxon public have made up their minds as to what they want from a Russian writer, and Leskov does not fit into that idea. But those who really want to know more about Russians sooner or later recognize that Russia is not all contained in Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, and that if you want to know anything, you must first be free of prejudice and on your guard against hasty generalizations." Selected bibliography Novels Nekuda (1864, No Way Out, not translated) Oboydyonnye (1865, Neglected People, not translated) Ostrovityane (1866, The Islanders, not translated) Na Nozhakh (1870, At Daggers Drawn, not translated) The Cathedral Folk (1872, tr. 1924) Zakhudalyy Rod (1873, A Decayed Family, not translated) Chyortovy Kukly (1890, The Devil Dolls, full text published in 2015, not translated) Novellas Musk-Ox (1862) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1865) The Amazon (1866) The Sealed Angel (1872) The Enchanted Wanderer (1873) ”On the Edge of the World” (1876) Short stories The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea (1881) Pamphalon the Mountebank (1887) Gora (The Mountain) (1890) Judol (Vale of Tears) (1892) Zayachii remiz (The Rabbit Warren) (1895) English translations 'The Sealed Angel,' in Russian Sketches, Chiefly of Peasant Life, translated by Beatrix L. Tollemache, Smith, Elder, 1913. The Steel Flea, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, privately printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers at the Merrymount Press, 1916. The Sentry and Other Stories, translated by A. E. Chamot (John Lane, 1922; Hyperion Press, 1977. ) The Enchanted Wanderer, translated by A. G. Paschkoff, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1924. The Cathedral Folk, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (John Lane, 1924; Hyperion Press, 1977. ) The Steel Flea, translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, Harper & Row, 1943. The Musk-Ox and Other Tales, translated by R. Norman (Routledge, 1944; Hyperion Press, 1977. ) The Enchanted Pilgrim and Other Stories, translated by David