About “The Family of the Vourdalak”
The Family of the Vourdalak is a gothic novella written by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy in 1839. It was originally composed in French and titled La Famille du Vourdalak. The work was part of an unpublished fragment titled Fragment inedit des Memoires d'un inconnu. Tolstoy wrote the story during a trip to France, while he was stationed in Frankfurt as part of the Russian Embassy. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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