epub |eng | 1994-06-30 | Author:Diana L. Burgin [Burgin, Diana L.]

Weininger’s “prolesbian” stance, unfortunately, depended on his misogynistic view that creativity was essentially a “virile” or masculine province. Indeed, the notion of Sappho’s virile genius seemed to separate her from ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-24 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

And there was a positive obstacle to my going: I had no money. All I had was nine roubles, I had to give seven of that to my servant, Apollon, ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

“Yes, the old man’s bedroom is lighted up. She’s there! and he leapt from the fence into the garden. Though he knew Grigory was ill and very likely Smerdyakov, too, ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Sibelan Forrester

4 NOVELLISTIC TALES GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF NOVELLISTIC TALES I will move on now to another major type of folktales: everyday, realistic, or novellistic tales. They are completely different in character ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Margarita Khemlin

I very clearly wrote “Handle with care, photo!” on the envelope in various places. Then, after I’d sealed the envelope, I realized I should have put the date on the ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:J. A E Curtis [CURTIS, J. A. E.]

6 1936–1940 Yelena Sergeyevna began her diary entry for 9 March 1936, when Bulgakov’s play Molière was taken off, with a quotation from the play: ‘Here I will enter a ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Alexander Pushkin

“There was discord. Pyotr Andreyich was angry at first, but then he thought better of it, and decided that everyone may sing what he likes. And that was the end ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He went into a telephone booth and tried to call a captain he knew at District headquarters who was on duty there that evening—to learn the latest news. The captain ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Apollonio, Carol,Lapushin, Radislav & Radislav Lapushin [Apollonio, Carol & Lapushin, Radislav]

Individual Dramatic Elements in the Letters “The Characters” The letters from the 1880s and 1890s, as we have noted, feature memorable statements concerning literary and social life and offer a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...

epub | | 2011-06-14 | Author:Schönle, Andreas [Schönle, Andreas]

In two lithographs Ostroumova gives us a vivid picture of the dying life of the river. She has immortalized the rotting carcasses of vessels, whose blackened bones have stuck out ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:Aleksandr Pushkin

VII Lacking the lofty passion not to spare life for the sake of sounds, an iamb from a trochee he could not— [4] no matter how we strove—distinguish; dispraised Homer, ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov & Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy

* “On Learning Russian,” The Wellesley Magazine, April 1945, 191–92. A note heads the article: “The College offers this year, for the first time, a six hour course in elementary ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Tussing Orwin, Donna]

“Church and State” (1879) A short essay written early in Tolstoy’s quest for religious certainty and not published until much later already attacks the established Church in sharp, precise, and ...