Seven Who Were Hanged."

In "Red Laughter" he depicted the horrors of war as few men had ever
before done it. He dipped his pen into the blood of Russia and wrote
the tragedy of the Manchurian war.

In his "Life of Man" Andreyev produced a great, imaginative "morality"
play which has been ranked by European critics with some of the
greatest dramatic masterpieces.

The story of "The Seven Who Were Hanged" is thus far his most
important achievement. The keen psychological insight and the masterly
simplicity with which Andreyev has penetrated and depicted each of the
tragedies of the seven who were hanged place him in the same class as
an artist with Russia's greatest masters of fiction, Dostoyevsky,
Turgenev and Tolstoy.

I consider myself fortunate to be able to present to the
English-reading public this remarkable work, which has already
produced a profound impression in Europe and which, I believe, is
destined for a long time to come to play an important part in opening
the eyes of the world to the horrors perpetrated in Russia and to the
violence and iniquity of the destruction of human life, whatever the
error or the crime.

New York. HERMAN BERNSTEIN.



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