Alexander Grin's story

[Lily Alexander]

Thank you, Olga!

This is exactly the story I was looking for.

Lily

Olga Bukhina wrote:
> Lily,
>
> The story is Словоохотливый домовой, see: http://lib.ru/RUSSLIT/GRIN/domovoj.txt
>
> Olga Bukhina
> American Council of Learned Societies
> E-mail: obukhina at acls.org 
>
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lily Alexander
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:17 PM
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] Alexander Grin's story
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am trying to find out the title of the short story by Alexander Grin I 
> read many years ago. Please let me know if you recall its title.
>
> In sum, it is a story of the young couple that lived happily until one 
> fateful encounter in the forest. A sailor, still a young man, settled 
> down with his young wife after many years in the sea. One day his old 
> friend, another old salt with whom he had traveled on many ships, was 
> expected to visit him. On his way the guest met the young wife in the 
> woods accidentally, and after that he never appeared on his friend's 
> doorstep. The story implies that the guest and the young wife had been 
> "struck by the lightening" - fell instantly in love, kind of fateful 
> encounter, and so he chose to turn around and leave for good, in order 
> to never ruin his old friend's family life.
>
> Something like this.
>
> I hope somebody remembers this story.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Lily Alexander
>
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