Word: turgenieff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...