Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486851435
"In The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway crafted his disillusions into a comedic satire aimed at Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter as well as other great writers of the day"--
Author : Ivan Turgenev
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241414091
Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancée, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation. A novel of haunting beauty, Spring Torrents (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes - a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.
Author : Ivan Turgenev
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775454177
Get acquainted with the work of Russian literary master Ivan Turgenev in this rich, multifaceted tale of unrequited romantic love and self-discovery. The Torrents of Spring follows the coming-of-age of a young Russian aristocrat who is willing to give away everything he owns to pursue love. But before he can achieve his happily-ever-after, a sophisticated seductress steps in and induces him to stray from his single-minded goal. Will the young protagonist make the right decision? Read The Torrents of Spring to find out.
Author : C.D. Wright
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619320967
"Wright proves herself to be one of the most complex and fascinating poets writing today." -Library Journal
Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420935110
Generally thought to be the work that led to the abolishment of serfdom in Russia, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album (A Sportsman's Sketches)" is a series of short stories, written in 1852, that gained Turgenev widespread recognition for his unique writing style. These stories were the result of Turgenev's observations while hunting all over Russia, particularly on his abusive mother's estate at Spasskoye. A definitive work of the Russian Realist tradition, this collection of sketches unveils the author's insights on the lives of everyday Russians, from landowners and their peasants, to bailiffs and mournful doctors, to unhappy wives and mothers. Turgenev captures their tragedies and triumphs, losses and love in a set of stories that condemned the behavior of the ruling class. Considered subversive writing, Turgenev was confined to his mother's estate, yet his "Sketches" opened the eyes of many people of his time, proving him not only an artist but also a social reformer whose abilities ultimately affected the lives of countless Russians.
Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681463024
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, 'A Short and Easy Method of Prayer.' Guyon believed that one should pray all the time, and that in whatever one does, one should be spending time with God.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476770220
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the “haves” and the “have nots” and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, “Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.”
Author : Kevin Fedarko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439159866
The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
Author : Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2020-12-06
Category :
ISBN :
Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents is a novel by Ivan Turgenev that was first published in 1872. It is highly autobiographical in nature, and centers on a young Russian landowner, Dimitry Sanin, who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. Written during 1870 and 1871, when Turgenev was in his fifties, the novel is widely held as one of his greatest.
