Lectures on Russian Literature, Volume 1The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians" (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations. |
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Page 63
... mother was possessed of a tyrannical nature and led her peasants and also her immediate family a miserable life ... mother's death he did much to improve the peasants ' circumstances , freed all his domestic servants , and went out of ...
... mother was possessed of a tyrannical nature and led her peasants and also her immediate family a miserable life ... mother's death he did much to improve the peasants ' circumstances , freed all his domestic servants , and went out of ...
Page 154
... mother was , went up the steps and at the entrance of the section he stopped short in the vestibule of the car to make room for a lady who was coming out . With the instinct of a man of the world he at once classified her as belonging ...
... mother was , went up the steps and at the entrance of the section he stopped short in the vestibule of the car to make room for a lady who was coming out . With the instinct of a man of the world he at once classified her as belonging ...
Page 283
... mother is always surrounded by famous artists and writers . It is quite a long monologue . By a judiciously placed question he is further made to speak of Trigorin , his mother's friend , the author . Charm , talent , but - but somehow ...
... mother is always surrounded by famous artists and writers . It is quite a long monologue . By a judiciously placed question he is further made to speak of Trigorin , his mother's friend , the author . Charm , talent , but - but somehow ...
Contents
Russian Writers Censors and Readers | 1 |
NIKOLAY GOGOL | 15 |
IVAN TURGENEV | 63 |
Copyright | |
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