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Download or read book Desperate Characters written by Paula Fox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] Of the Caucasus legends I have spoken about, I will tell you two or three. One day, in a party of officers, Misha began boasting of a sabre he had got by exchange-'a genuine Persian blade!' The officers expressed doubts as to its genuineness. Misha began disputing. 'Here then, ' he cried at last; 'they say the man that knows most about sabres is Abdulka the one-eyed. I'll go to him, and ask.' The officers wondered. 'What Abdulka? Do you mean that lives in the mountains? The rebel never subdued? Abdul-khan?' 'Yes, that's him.' 'Why, but he'll take you for a spy, will put you in a hole full of bugs, or else cut your head off with your own sabre. And, besides, how are you going to get to him? They'll catch you directly.' 'I'll go to him, though, all the same.' 'Bet you won't!' 'Taken!' And Misha promptly saddled[...]."
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1899 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS A Desperate Character A Strange Story Punin and Baburin Old Portraits The Brigadier Pyetushkov
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyetushkov is the work of a young man of twenty-nine, and its lively, unstrained realism is so bold, intimate, and delicate as to contradict the flattering compliment that the French have paid to one another—that Turgenev had need to dress his art by the aid of French mirrors. Although Pyetushkov shows us, by a certain open naïveté of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the ‘forties’—that of Gogol, Balzac, and Dickens—straightway, with finer point, to find a perfect equilibrium free from any bias or caricature. The whole strength and essence of the realistic method has been developed in Pyetushkov to its just limits. The Russians are instinctive realists, and carry the warmth of life into their pages, which warmth the French seem to lose in clarifying their impressions and crystallising them in art. Pyetushkov is not exquisite: it is irresistible. Note how the reader is transported bodily into Pyetushkov’s stuffy room, and how the major fairly boils out of the two pages he lives in! (pp. 301, 302). That is realism if you like. A woman will see the point of Pyetushkov very quickly. Onisim and Vassilissa and the aunt walk and chatter around the stupid Pyetushkov, and glance at him significantly in a manner that reveals everything about these people’s world. All the servants who appear in the tales in this volume are hit off so marvellously that one sees the lower-class world, which is such a mystery to certain refined minds, has no secrets for Turgenev.
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Download or read book Novels: A desperate character, and other stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desperate Characters written by Paula Fox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage—and a society—wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."
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Download or read book The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: A desperate character, and other stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Desperate Character; And Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Download or read book A Desperate Character And Other Stories written by Ivan Turgenev and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Turgenev "A Desperate Character, And Other Stories" is a compelling collection of brief testimonies that explores the complexities of human relationships and society in nineteenth-century Russia. Turgenev, a maestro of Russian literature, tells stories which might be each heartbreaking and intelligent. The titular narrative, "A Desperate Character," chronicles its protagonist's psychological unraveling, offering a gripping portrayal of internal struggling inside the face of societal expectancies. Turgenev's astute observations and nuanced characterizations elevate the story, imparting readers with a radical comprehension of the human condition. Turgenev's different portions inside the series, which include "A Month within the Country" and "A Quiet Backwater," expertly illustrate the multidimensional nature of affection, societal dynamics, and human soul yearnings. His awesome words and empathic narrative paint a vibrant photograph of Russian lifestyles at some point of this time. "A Desperate Character, And Other Stories" exemplifies Turgenev's literary expertise, taking pictures the essence of nineteenth-century Russia even as addressing everlasting themes that enchantment to readers from all countries and eras.
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... We were a party of eight in the room, and we were talking of contemporary affairs and men. 'I don't understand these men!' observed A.: 'they're such desperate fellows.... Really desperate.... There has never been anything like it before.' 'Yes, there has, ' put in P., a man getting on in years, with grey hair, born some time in the twenties of this century: 'there were desperate characters in former days too, only they were not like the desperate fellows of to-day. Of the poet Yazikov some one has said that he had enthusiasm, but not applied to anything-an enthusiasm without an object. So it was with those people-their desperateness was without an object. But there, if you'll allow me, I'll tell you the story of my nephew, or rather cousin, Misha Poltyev. It may serve as an example of the desperate characters of those days. He came into God's world, I remember, in 1828, at his father's native place and property, in one of the sleepiest corners of a sleepy province of the steppes. Misha's father, Andrei Nikolaevitch Poltyev, I remember well to this day. He was a genuine oldworld landowner, a God-fearing, sedate man, fairly-for those days-well educated, just a little cracked, to tell the truth-and, moreover, he suffered from epilepsy.... That too is an old-world, gentlemanly complaint.... Andrei Nikolaevitch's fits were, however, slight, and generally ended in sleep and depression. He was good-hearted, and of an affable demeanour, not without a certain stateliness: I always pictured to myself the tsar Mihail Fedorovitch as like him. The whole life of Andrei Nikolaevitch was passed in the punctual fulfilment of every observance established from old days, in strict conformity with all the usages of the old orthodox holy Russian mode of life. He got up and went to bed, ate his meals, and went to his bath, rejoiced or was wroth (both very rarely, it is true), even smoked his pipe and played cards (two great innovations!), not after his own fancy, not in a way of his own, but according to the custom and ordinance of his fathers-with due decorum and formality
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Download or read book Novels: A desperate character, etc written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Desperate Character and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... We were a party of eight in the room, and we were talking of contemporary affairs and men. 'I don't understand these men!' observed A.: 'they're such desperate fellows.... Really desperate.... There has never been anything like it before.' 'Yes, there has, ' put in P., a man getting on in years, with grey hair, born some time in the twenties of this century: 'there were desperate characters in former days too, only they were not like the desperate fellows of to-day. Of the poet Yazikov some one has said that he had enthusiasm, but not applied to anything-an enthusiasm without an object. So it was with those people-their desperateness was without an object. But there, if you'll allow me, I'll tell you the story of my nephew, or rather cousin, Misha Poltyev. It may serve as an example of the desperate characters of those days. He came into God's world, I remember, in 1828, at his father's native place and property, in one of the sleepiest corners of a sleepy province of the steppes. Misha's father, Andrei Nikolaevitch Poltyev, I remember well to this day. He was a genuine oldworld landowner, a God-fearing, sedate man, fairly-for those days-well educated, just a little cracked, to tell the truth-and, moreover, he suffered from epilepsy.... That too is an old-world, gentlemanly complaint.... Andrei Nikolaevitch's fits were, however, slight, and generally ended in sleep and depression. He was good-hearted, and of an affable demeanour, not without a certain stateliness: I always pictured to myself the tsar Mihail Fedorovitch as like him. The whole life of Andrei Nikolaevitch was passed in the punctual fulfilment of every observance established from old days, in strict conformity with all the usages of the old orthodox holy Russian mode of life. He got up and went to bed, ate his meals, and went to his bath, rejoiced or was wroth (both very rarely, it is true), even smoked his pipe and played cards (two great innovations!), not after his own fancy, not in a way of his own, but according to the custom and ordinance of his fathers-with due decorum and formality
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Download or read book A Desperate Character written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Desperate Character & Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in the gripping and provocative stories of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. From the psychological realism of Desperate Character to the hauntingly beautiful First Love, this collection of stories by one of Russia's greatest writers is not to be missed. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Phantoms and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
