Word: turgenieff
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That, too, was an adversary pursuit. Advice to William Faulkner, 1947: "Why do you want to fight Dostoevsky in your first fight? Beat Turgenieff . . . Then try and take Stendhal. . . But don't fight with the poor pathological characters of our time (we won't name...
...their schooling and urged on by government efforts, Soviet writers may soon have ready a whole new literature. This new culture is being built even before the old is entirely destroyed, so that at least the memory of the old may be compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
...wish that his library should be installed in the Sanctum, and his father sent the entire collection, with an additional set of reference and other books, early this winter. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Pol, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, and Voltaire...
...books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...
...tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...