01787cam a22003493u 4500 61172 UtSlPG 20260610134417.0 m cr n 260607r2020||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PG Leskov, N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich), 1831-1895 Levsha. English The Steel Flea Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2020 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_from_Tula_and_the_Steel_Flea Release date is 2020-01-14 Produced by deaurider, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Steel Flea" by N. S. Leskov is a skaz written in 1881. Styled as a folk tale, it follows a left-handed craftsman from Tula who astonishes both Russian and English courts by shoeing a tiny mechanical flea created by English inventors. Through humor and distinctive language, Leskov explores Russian ingenuity and patriotism while critiquing a society that neglects its most talented people, ultimately delivering a tragic commentary on wasted genius. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Russia -- Fiction Fleas -- Fiction Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61172 101998 101998