Title: The Scarlet Flower

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Title: The Scarlet Flower Title Record # 2296155
Author: Vsevolod Garshin
Date: 1981-00-00
Variant Title of: [Russian] (1883) (by ) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: Translated by Peter Henry Borderline speculative, being a story of insanity. Some interpreters of the story consider the patient's struggle to actually have cosmic significance.

Synopsis: A patient in a mental hospital devotes his entire strength to attempting to remove scarlet flowers from the hospital garden, since he has recognized them as the source of all evil in the world.

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories	1981-00-00	ed. David Richards	Penguin Books	0-14-004816-2		367	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth

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