A Duel with Destiny and Other Stories
Author: Edith Townsend Everett
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edith Townsend Everett
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 3734022096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Duel and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov, a master of Russian psychological prose. Living at the edge of the epochs, when new communist and socialist views ruined tzarism, Chekhov chronicled the gap between the old and new generations in his deeply psychological short stories and novellas.
Author: Антон Чехов
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 5040758804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-04
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 3732637239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
Author: Rose Tomlin
Publisher: Evening Post Books
Published: 2018-08-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1642373079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theodosia Burr Alston was born the daughter of political figure Aaron Burr when the United States was in its infancy. She was a prodigious child, living a privileged life in Manhattan during a captivating period in U.S. history, and acquiring, at her father's insistence, "a most perfect education." As the young country wrestled with conflict and strife, Theodosia's life often seemed to mirror its turbulence. Her unexpected marriage startled the political world. Her struggle to adjust to the difficult and unaccustomed responsibilities as mistress of a rice plantation in South Carolina was monumental. She was the centerpiece in the lives of two very powerful men, which resulted in a painful stretch of her loyalties and caused her great inner turmoil and pain. Theodosia's story is fascinating in its complexity. An impressive woman in her own right, she was destined for greatness through her personal and political connections. The unexpected conclusion of Theodosia's story will inspire readers to learn more about this intriguing woman.
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 146559003X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public's 'inordinate' love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on the novel as a mere story-book, as a series of light-coloured, amusing pictures for their 'idle hours,' and on memoirs, biographies, histories, criticism, and poetry as the age's serious contribution to literature. Whereas the reverse is the case. The most serious and significant of all literary forms the modern world has evolved is the novel; and brought to its highest development, the novel shares with poetry to-day the honour of being the supreme instrument of the great artist's literary skill. To survey the field of the novel as a mere pleasure-garden marked out for the crowd's diversionÑa field of recreation adorned here and there by the masterpieces of a few great menÑargues in the modern critic either an academical attitude to literature and life, or a one-eyed obtuseness, or merely the usual insensitive taste. The drama in all but two countries has been willy-nilly abandoned by artists as a coarse playground for the great public's romps and frolics, but the novel can be preserved exactly so long as the critics understand that to exercise a delicate art is the oneserious duty of the artistic life. It is no more an argument against the vital significance of the novel that tens of thousands of peopleÑthat everybody, in factÑshould to-day essay that form of art, than it is an argument against poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes. The true function of poetry! That can only be vindicated in common opinion by the severity and enthusiasm of critics in stripping bare the false, and in hailing as the true all that is animated by the living breath of beauty. The true function of the novel! That can only be supported by those who understand that the adequate representation and criticism of human life would be impossible for modern men were the novel to go the way of the drama, and be abandoned to the mass of vulgar standards.Ê