WRITER

Lev Mei

1822 - 1862

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Lev Aleksandrovich Mei or Mey (Russian: Лев Александрович Мей; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1822 – 28 May [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Mei has received more than 26,321 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Mei is the 5,721st most popular writer (down from 5,151st in 2019), the 2,175th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,895th in 2019) and the 264th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

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  • 2.98

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Notable Works

Modern Short Stories
banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica
The adventures of Simon and Susanna / Joel Chandler Harris The crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge The soul of the great bell / Lafcadio Hearn The ten trails / Ernest Thompson Seton Where love is, there God is also / Count Leo Tolstoi Wood-ladies / Perceval Gibbon On the fever ship / Richard Harding Davis A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier Moti Guj-Mutineer / Rudyard Kipling Gulliver the great / Walter A. Dyer Sonny's schoolin' / Ruth McEnery Stuart Her first horse show / David Gray My husband's book / James Matthew Barrie War / Jack London The battle of the monsters / Morgan Robertson A dilemma / S. Weir Mitchell [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) / A. Conan Doyle One hundred in the dark / Owen Johnson A retrieved reformation / O. Henry Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome A fight with death / Ian Maclaren The Dan-nan-Ron / Fiona Macleod.
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy
NURSING STORIES
Nursing, Fiction, English fiction
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.
Great Short Stories of the World [30 stories]
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My terninal moriane / Frank R. Stockton -- The indian's hand / Lorimer Stoddard -- A good-for-nothing / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- The phonograph and the graft / O. Henry -- "To make a Hoosier holiday" / George Ade -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Out of the storm / Mulloy Finnegan -- Mrs. Protheroe / Booth Tarkington -- In each other's shoes / George Parsons Lathrop -- The polite horse / Henry Beach Needham -- The duel / Nikolai Teleshov -- The hanging at La Piroche / Alexandre Dumas, fils -- A work of art / Anton Chekhov -- The bit of string / Guy de Maupassant -- [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Love and bread / Jean August Strindberg -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Boless / Maxim Gorki -- The mummy's foot / Theophile Gautier -- The end of candia / Gabriele d'Annunzio -- The cloak / Nikolai Gogol -- Railroad and churchyard / Björnstjerne Björnson -- The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The thief / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The beauty spot / Alfred de Musset -- The long exile / Leo Tolstoy.
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lev Mei ranks 5,721 out of 7,302Before him are Kim Iryeop, Frederick Rolfe, Christoph Ransmayr, Robert Christgau, Federico Moccia, and Michel Deguy. After him are Regīna Ezera, Sydney, Lady Morgan, Dmitri Prigov, Lőrinc Szabó, Pauline Baynes, and Kito Lorenc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Lev Mei ranks 81Before him are Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Henry James Sumner Maine, Charles Frédéric Girard, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Jorge Córdova. After him are Thomas Hughes, Frances Power Cobbe, Edward Everett Hale, and George Stoneman. Among people deceased in 1862, Lev Mei ranks 54Before him are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, Felix de Muelenaere, Blanka Teleki, Francisco Acuña de Figueroa, Pedro Gual Escandón, and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker. After him are Manuel Robles Pezuela, and Agustín Durán.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Mei ranks 2,175 out of 3,761Before him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (1982), Vladimir Belousov (1946), Aleksandr Domogarov (1963), Maria Vorontsova (1985), and Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946). After him are Valentin Gavrilov (1946), Dmitri Prigov (1940), Yuli Raizman (1903), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), Darya Dontsova (1952), and Maria Golubnichaya (1924).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lev Mei ranks 264Before him are Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Semyon Nadson (1862), Yuri Samarin (1819), Yakov Polonsky (1819), and Ivan Dmitriev (1760). After him are Dmitri Prigov (1940), Darya Dontsova (1952), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Aleksandr Chakovsky (1913), Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900), and Vasily Belov (1932).