The Sentry and Other Stories
Translated by Alfred Edward Chamot
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THE SENTRY
1839
THE events of the story which is now presented to the reader are so touching and terrible in their importance for the chief and heroic actor who took part in them, and the issue of the affair was so unique, that anything similar could scarcely have occurred in another country than Russia.
It forms in part a court anecdote, in part a historic event that characterizes fairly well the banners and the very strange tendencies of the uneventful period comprised in the third decade this nineteenth century.
There is no invention in the following story.
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About this edition
- The words
- Alfred Edward Chamot's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 30 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- The volume's closing line “THE END.”
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places