Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Marino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called "nihilism" which the young men advocate.
Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying ...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Constance Garnett John Reed
Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novels. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.
Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novels. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant lov...
Still popular today, Anna Karenina is regarded as a timeless classic, having been adapted to film numerous times since 1911. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it a flawless work of art. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, "the best ever written." In a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in "The Top Ten" in Time, declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written."
Still popular today, Anna Karenina is regarded as a timeless classic, having been adapted to film numerous times since 1911. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declar...
The Crocodile is a classic Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Ivanovna, and the narrator visit the Arcade to see a crocodile that has been put on display by a German entrepreneur. After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich is swallowed alive. He finds the inside of the crocodile to be quite comfortable, and the animal's owner refuses to allow it to be cut open, in spite of the pleas from Elena Ivanovna.
The Crocodile is a classic Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Iva...
Torrents of Spring Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents, is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. It is widely held as one Turgenev's greatest novels as well as being highly autobiographical in nature.
Torrents of Spring Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents, is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during ...
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's...
Notes from the Underground
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Un...
