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Great Russian Short Stories (Translated into English) app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: Matthew Szenher
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 27 Apr 2009
App size: 286.73 Kb

“Great Russian Short Stories” is a collection of nineteen short stories by nineteenth century masters of the form including Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The stories have been translated into English. The complete list of stories and their authors is as follows:

THE QUEEN OF SPADES by A.S. Pushkin
THE CLOAK by N.V. Gogol
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by I.S. Turgenev
THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by F.M. Dostoyevsky
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by L.N. Tolstoy
HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS by M.Y. Saltykov
THE SHADES, A PHANTASY by V.G. Korolenko
THE SIGNAL by V.N. Garshin
THE DARLING by A.P. Chekhov
THE BET by A.P. Chekhov
VANKA by A.P. Chekhov
HIDE AND SEEK by F.K. Sologub
DETHRONED by I.N. Potapenko
THE SERVANT by S.T. Semyonov
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT by M. Gorky
HER LOVER by M. Gorky
LAZARUS by L.N. Andreyev
THE REVOLUTIONIST by M.P. Artzybashev
THE OUTRAGE by A.I. Kuprin


HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on Start where I left off... to continue reading at the point at which you last closed the eBook.

The eBook application allows you to change the texts font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested