epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

37 But what of our Eugene this while? Have patience, friends, I beg you, pray; I’ll tell it all in detailed style And show you how he spent each day. ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE GRATEFUL GERMAN IONCE KNEW A GRATEFUL GERMAN. The first time I met him was in Frankfurt-am-Main. He was walking along Dummstrasse with a monkey on a leash. One could ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

“Goosie, goosie, goosie!” called Olya, reaching toward a gosling. The gosling was wise beyond his years. He dodged Olya and ran to his sire, a very large and stupid gander, ...

epub, azw3 | | 2012-07-10 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor

“Why, you—” “What?” “Why, you—you’re speaking as though you were reading from a book,” she said, and something that sounded like irony could suddenly be heard in her voice. I ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor & Alan Myers & W. J. Leatherbarrow [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

MORNING MY nights ended with the morning. It was a nasty day. Rain was falling and beat dismally against my window panes; it was dark in my little room and ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

I The Hospital Soon after the holidays, I fell ill and was sent to our military hospital. It stood apart, about a quarter mile from the fortress. It was a ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:IVAN TURGENEV [TURGENEV, IVAN]

VI THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV Picture to yourselves, gentle readers, a stout, tall man of seventy, with a face reminding one somewhat of the face of Kriloff, clear and intelligent ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

THE GAMBLER A Novel (From a Young Man’s Notes) CHAPTER I I ’VE FINALLY COME BACK from my two-week absence. Our people have already been in Roulettenburg for three days. ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1915-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

XII IT WAS SEVEN O’CLOCK in the evening; the prince was about to go to the park. Suddenly Lizaveta Prokofyevna came to him on the terrace alone. “First, don’t you ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

I The Hospital Soon after the holidays, I fell ill and was sent to our military hospital. It stood apart, about a quarter mile from the fortress. It was a ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-10 | Author:Jay Parini

22 J. P. SONYA: A SESTINA On my knees, still praying, by the blackened pond. I watch the moon’s bare sickle and the stars that fleck and burn my skin, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1977-03-03 | Author:V. S. Pritchett

Chapter 9 The attacks on Turgenev by Goncharov and Tolstoy were personal attacks on his honour and dignity as a man; he was by nature excitable but his irony and ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

XXVI TWO days later Marya Dmitrievna, according to her promise, arrived in Vasilyevskoye with all her young people. The little girls at once ran into the garden, while Marya Dmitrievna ...

mobi |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Robert A. Maguire; Ronald Meyer

6: Pyotr Stepanovich Bustles About, IV: Shatov It's solely for the sake of Shatov," Pyotr Stepanovich added, with a noble air, "for Shatov alone, out of past friendship .. well, ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

THE GAMBLER A Novel (From a Young Man’s Notes) CHAPTER I I ’VE FINALLY COME BACK from my two-week absence. Our people have already been in Roulettenburg for three days. ...