More than a dozen tales translated into English for the first time include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, and stories by D. Mamin-Sibiryak, Alexander Grin, Vasily Grossman, and others.
In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.