A Reckless Character And Other Stories

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Fathers and Sons

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Bazarov is a nihilist who scorns the purposelessness of everything but science—until he falls in love. His friend, Arkady Kirsanov, tries to embrace nihilism, but finally submits to the comforts of a traditional life. A depiction of the ideological divide between two generations, “Fathers and Sons” is one of the first modern Russian novels.

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Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)

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When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.

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The Torrents of Spring (Volume 11)

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... away. When he came back, Gemma thanked him with a little nod of the head, and with a pensive smile she began herself just audibly humming the beautiful melody of Weber's, in which Max expresses all the perplexities of first love. Then she asked Sanin whether he knew 'Freischiitz,' whether he was fond of Weber, and added that though she was herself an Italian, she liked such music best of all. From Weber the conversation glided off on to poetry and romanticism, on to Hoffmann, whom every one was still reading at that time. And Frau Lenore still slept, and even snored just a little, and the sunbeams, piercing in narrow streaks through the shutters, were incessantly and imperceptibly shifting and travelling over the floor, the furniture, Gemma's dress, and the leaves and petals of the flowers. XII It appeared that Gemma was not very fond of Hoffmann, that she even thought him . . . tedious! The fantastic, misty northern element in his stories was too remote from her clear, southern nature. 'It's all fairy-tales, all written for children !' she declared with some contempt. She was vaguely conscious, too, of the lack of poetry in Hoffmann. But there was one of his stories, the title of which she had forgotten, which she greatly liked; more precisely speaking, it was only the beginning of this story that she liked; the end she had either not read or had forgotten. The story was about a young man who in some place, a sort of restaurant perhaps, meets a girl of striking beauty, a Greek; she is accompanied by a mysterious and strange, wicked old man. The young man falls in love with the girl at first sight; she looks at him so mournfully, as though beseeching him to deliver her. . . . He goes out for an instant, and, coming back into the restaurant, finds there neither the girl nor the old m...

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Fathers and Children (Oneworld Classics)

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On the Eve

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVI. CONCLUSION. J^- EARLY five years have passed away since that letter was written from Venice, and nothing further has ever been heard of Ellen. Letters written from home have remained unanswered, and all inquiries have proved fruitless. It was to no purpose that Nicholas Artemvitch himself went to Venice, and thence to Zara, after the conclusion of the war: in Venice he only learned what the reader already knows, and in Zara he could meet with no one who was able to give him any positive information either respecting Renditch, or the ship in which he and Ellen had set sail from Venice. There were indeed mysterious rumours of the sea, during a heavy storm some four or five years back, having washed ashore a black coffin, in which was found the corpse of a man. But according to other and more trustworthy reports, this coffin was not washed ashore by the sea, but was brought and buried near the sea-shore by a foreign lady who had just arrived from Venice: some even added, that she had been later seen at Herzhaven with the army that was then being levied, and they also described her as being dressed in black from head to foot. However all this may be, every trace of Ellen has been lost, and no one knows whether she is living, whether she has sought refuge in some distant and foreign land, whether the short comedy of life has been played out, her short-lived troubles ended, and death in its turn has come to make its claim. It will often happen that a man, with an involuntary apprehension, asks himself, Can it be that I am already thirty--forty--fifty years old? How is it that life passes so quickly? How is it that death presses so closely upon us? Death is like a fisherman who has caught some fish in his net, but leaves it for a while in the water; the fish still swims abou...

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