A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

A Reckless Character, and Other Stories"Yes, there has," put in P., a grey-haired old man, who had...
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Author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,1818-1883
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Language: English
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A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

€6,35

A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

€6,35
Author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,1818-1883
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

"Yes, there has," put in P., a grey-haired old man, who had been born about the twenties of the present century;"there were reckless men in days gone by also. Some one said of the poet Yzykoff, that he had enthusiasm which was not directed to anything, an objectless enthusiasm; and it was much the same with those peopletheir recklessness was without an object. But see here, if you will permit me, I will narrate to you the story of my grandnephew, Msha Plteff. It may serve as a sample of the recklessness of those days." He made his appearance in God's daylight in the year 1828, I remember, on his father's ancestral estate, in one of the most remote nooks of a remote government of the steppes. I still preserve a distinct recollection of Msha's father, Andri Nikolevitch Plteff. He was a genuine, old-fashioned landed proprietor, a pious inhabitant of the steppes, sufficiently well educated,according to the standards of that epoch,rather crack-brained, if the truth must be told, and subject, in addition, to epileptic fits. That also is an old-fashioned malady. However, Andri Nikolevitch's attacks were quiet, and they generally terminated in a sleep and in a fit of melancholy.He was kind of heart, courteous in manner, not devoid of some pomposity: I have always pictured to myself the Tzar Mikhal Fedorovitch as just that sort of a man. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 15994
Author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
Release Date: Jun 6, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928

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