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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...s! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the future antiquarian of dead literatures were to find in this company none but great names and generous ... ...no one to direct me, I light on some which are fearfully dull. What modern literature I have read all turns upon love, the subject which used to bulk ... ...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...eir local governments, their passions and prejudices, and their ethics and literature; leaving nothing unnoticed that might afford an argument to prov... ... to him to de- grade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violen... ... Gradually the spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, 14 Democracy in America opened chances of success to t... ...ast. T o the northwest nothing is to be met with but a few insig- nificant Russian settlements; but to the southwest, Mexico presents a barrier to the... ...the same end, although they started from different points: I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whils... ...les against the natural obstacles which oppose him; the adversaries of the Russian are men; the former combats the wilderness and savage life; the lat... ...free scope to the unguided exertions and common-sense of the citizens; the Russian cen- tres all the authority of society in a single arm: the princip... ...he minutiae of military discipline to the same degree of perfection as the Russians have done; but this did not prevent Alexander from conquering Asia...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ...is that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still ... ...e plot of the earlier work The Revisor, which is almost the only comedy in Russian. The impor- tance of both is their introduction of the social eleme... ...ce of both is their introduction of the social element 5 Gogol in Russian literature, as Prince Kropotkin points out. Both hold up the mirror to Russ... ... *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckworth and Co. 7 Gogol the reader might find pause to rest ... ...v called to indulge in a free- and-easy symposium on politics, philosophy, literature, morals, and the state of financial affairs in England (he was, ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...xact scholar, or technical proficient at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern la... ...the sky;”—means are always there to stop them short of the sky. CHAPTER VI LITERATURE: THE ATHENAEUM Of all forms of public life, in the Talking Era, ... ...ire going on. The true Canaan and Mount Zion of a Talking Era must ever be Literature: the extraneous, miscellaneous, self-elected, indescribable Parl... ...d already privately begun writing a Novel, and was clearly looking towards Literature, perceived that his gifted Cambridge friend, Frederic Maurice, w... ...hung the whole way with a deep canvas pocket full of this mortal shot. One Russian Grand Duke goes with a troop of young- sters in a wagon, all dresse...

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...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the ?thirties ... forty years ago as you see. I will be brief--and don?t you interrupt me....

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...NOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...OCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev T ranslated From The Russian By Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL SETTLED D... ...ood friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell yo... ...ld candle to him. He not only enjoyed the reputation of being the foremost Russian writer; but—something much more difficult and more rarely met with—... ... the most part drank tea, smoked pipes and talked sometimes to our host, a Russianised Finn or to the pedlar who used to hang about the battery sellin...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett A Penn ... ...sity. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON:... ...T o the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl’s soul; but to ... ...rating diagnosis of the destinies of the Russia of the fifties. Elena, the Russian girl, is the central figure of the novel. In comparing her with T u... ...y love. 6 On the Eve And now to see what the novel before us means to the Russian mind, we must turn to the infinitely suggestive back- ground. Turge... ...rt, who deserted her without loss of time. This governess was very fond of literature, and wrote verses herself; she inspired Elena with a love of rea...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...te for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor— Kirylo Sidorovitch-Razumov, If I have ... ...It is based on a document; all I have brought to it is my knowledge of the Russian language, which is sufficient for what is attempted here. The docum... ...or a long time in Geneva. A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians re- siding there, is called La Petite Russie —Little Russia. I had... ...le Russia at that time. Y et I confess that I have no comprehension of the Russian charac- ter. The illogicality of their attitude, the arbitrariness ... ...e pro- fessors. What must remain striking to a teacher of languages is the Russians’ extraordinary love of words. They gather them up; they cherish th...

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...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Elect... ...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...university. 3 Turgenev RUDIN a novel BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak LONDON: WILLIAM HE... ... because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it w... ... indeed, a generous compliment, com- ing from the representative of French literature which is so eminently artistic. But it was not flattery. As an a... ..., Polikushka. He was certainly able to paint all classes and conditions of Russian people. But in his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusive... ...n his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusively with one class of Russian people. There is nothing of the enormous canvas of Count T olstoi, ... ...ectiveness, be- came so loud and unanimous, that he contemplated giving up literature altogether. He could not possibly have held to this resolution. ... ...e the fundamental traits of all that is Russian in character, manner, art, literature. But it may be truly said that every educated Russian of our tim...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...eir city of Paris the focus of enlightenment, with the sceptre of arts and literature within its grasp. There are, alas! two sorts of Polish exiles,—t... ...h was then dignified by the name of sagacity. They turned their backs on a Russian prince with whom they had all been on intimate terms during the Emi... ... In his last affair, thinking he was followed by his men, he dashed upon a Russian battery and was taken prisoner. I was there. His brave act roused m... ... eight, counting Paz. After Warsaw was sold we were forced to escape those Russians. By a curious chance, Paz and I happened to come together again, a... ... arrested by some Prussians, who made them- selves the blood-hounds of the Russians. When we have fished a man out of the Styx we cling to him. This n... ... year ago,” he said to himself, “she thought me a hero who could fight the Russians single-handed!” He thought of leaving the hotel Laginski, and taki...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...versity. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who w... ...v’s powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individ... ... portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and incompatibles of last mid-century, of which the most m... ...ing is the list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the Experiences of a Sportsman, from Fren... ...ain thing. I am sorry to say that I interest myself very little in Russian literature nowadays. It has grown so horribly vulgar. A cook is now made th... ...fresh air. The conversation was very lively. Kollomietzev condemned modern literature, and on this subject, too, Sipiagin showed himself a liberal. He... ...he responsibility upon my- self. Imagine, it’s an oasis! Neither politics, literature, nor anything modern ever penetrates there. The little house is ...

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...however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not com plete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. No... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them... ...often possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast Fish, whereof possession is th...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...y “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a cl... ...imes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were hors d’oeuvre. The modern bi... ... You have pride. But we are both intellectuals. We both belong to what the Russians call the Intelligentsia. We have ideas, we have imagination, that ... ...the one by some miracle of en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed,... ... made a Free Trade speech at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man... ...self for a war that will shatter a tyrannous presumption. Most imaginative literature, all scientific in- vestigation, all sound criticism, all good b... ... mass of population in the world, paved the way for much beautiful art and literature and living. “But in the end, all your stern orderliness, Benham,...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... But how to define the forbidden? He began to compose an address on Modern Literature (so-called). It became acrimonious. Before dawn the birds began ... ...ssail, and meanwhile the demand that action should be taken increased. The literature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrin... ...e sceptical spirits who find all too abundant expression in our periodical literature. The writer boldly charged the “Chris- tian churches” with absol... ...lle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the sinking of the Falaba, the Russian defeat in the Masurian Lakes, all deepened the bishop’s impression ... ...ghtful battle, where the German phalanx of guns pounds its way through the Russian hosts. Here is a young German talking to two wounded Russian prison... ...the roadside. He is a German of East Prussia; he knows and thinks a little Russian. And they too are saying, all three of them, that the war is not Go... ...ench and Germans? Why someday shouldn’t French, German, Dutch and English, Russian and Pole, ride together under this new star of mankind, the Souther... ... passion of a mission. The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world w...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...hions and novelties; reads nothing, prefers ignorance, whether of science, literature, or industrial inventions. It in- sists on the removal of a pref... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ... ...h her money. But among the Bour- geoisie, the Vicomte de T roisville was a Russian general who had fought against France, and was now returning with a... ...ame Amphoux, which were offered to a bachelor, and not to the husband of a Russian woman. All these details were noticed and laughed at. The Abbe de S...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...t music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her friends, or shown her the world, poure... ... and partly because she was en- gaged in writing a short Primer of English Literature— Beowulf to Swinburne—which would have a paragraph on Wordsworth... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...ompare with the delights of dancing—nothing in the world was so tedious as literature. Thus he sought pathetically enough to ingra- tiate himself with... ...r fifteen years of punctual lecturing and correct- ing essays upon English literature. Emily, her sister, who was a teacher also, wrote: “We ought to ... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical wo... ...n with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of Mark Twain 10 mysterious and uncanny creatures. At the time I am writing of, I had been reading so much o... ... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ... of a foreign language, or a few beggarly little three-word phrases, filched from the back of the Dictionary, and these are continually peppering into... ...ad could not have been better built if Napoleon the First had built it. He seems to have been the introducer of the sort of roads which Europe now use... ...ster hue of death. This was the third right hand found; therefore, all three of the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel w... ... could to injure Mont Blanc. In the record-book was a list of all the fatal accidents which happened on the mountain. It began with the one in 1820 wh... ... robbed an aged and blind beggar- woman of four dollars—in a church. It happened this way. When I was out with the Innocents Abroad, the ship stopped ...

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... irritated Birkin. They were all drinking champagne. Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the o... ...’m sure I should die—I’m sure I should.’ ‘I hope not,’ whispered the young Russian. ‘I’m sure I should, Maxim,’ she asseverated. 66 ‘Then one won’t c... ... uneasiness. ‘And are you afraid of nothing else, Pussum?’ asked the young Russian, in his quick, hushed, elegant manner. ‘Not weally,’ she said. ‘I a... ...ay. ‘He’s going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away. Birkin, white ... ...drunk one glass—only one glass,’ came the rapid, hushed voice of the young Russian. They all moved off to the door. The girl kept near to Gerald, and ... ...erick the Great reading his own poetry. They talked together for hours, of literature and sculpture and painting, amusing themselves with Flaxman and ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...and tears which is declared to be the highest achievement of imagina- tive literature. Only, to be a great magician one must surrender oneself to occu... ...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier myself I und... ...h”—(my great- grandfather’s name was Stephen and the comman- dant used the Russian form of polite address)—”tell me why is it that you Poles are alway... ...the conditions of his exile. Declining the option offered him to enter the Russian Army he was retired with only half the pension of his rank. His nep... ... Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was “Nicholas Nickleby.” It is extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickl... ...elieve that I am wrong. That book was not my first introduction to English literature. My first acquaintance was (or were) the “Two Gentlemen of Veron...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...efore going out she asked me what she was to get into this time. “It’s the Russian princess, don’t you know?” I answered; “the one with the ‘golden ey... ...excellent model—she was really very clever. “Do you think she looks like a Russian princess?” Major Monarch asked, with lurking alarm. “When I make he... ...ile he passed his arm into his wife’s—”who’s already made!” “Oh, I’m not a Russian princess,” Mrs. Monarch pro- tested, a little coldly. I could see t...