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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...roduction by John Cournos Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, born at Sorochintsky, Russia, on 31st March 1809. Obtained government post at St. Pe- tersburg an... ...DUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its c... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...s “Pray do not tease him any more”) and the cheerful candle-light, and the cricket chirp- ing in a corner, and the glass door, and the spring night wh...

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...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Well... ...gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed t... ...f imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it was so, but b... ... with governments that do not stand for their peoples; we have had all our Russian deal, for example, repudiated and thrust back upon our hands; and i... ...a man engaged in a desperate duel who keeps on trying to make it a game of cricket. Most of these soldiers detest every sort of mechanical device; the...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 184...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...versity. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who w... ...both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret mod- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater... ...eep of the just, amidst the fragrant scent of musk and the chirping of the cricket. To these two odd little people, or poll-parrots as Paklin called t...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...King of Sicilia meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation, which hee justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our Entertainment shall shame us: we will be justified in our Loves: for indeed--Cam. Beseech you--Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my know-ledge: we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know not what to say--Wee will give you sleepie Drinkes, that your Sences ...

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...h. Wherein our Entertainment shall shame vs: we 12 will be iustified in our Loues: for indeed— 13 Cam. ’Beseech you— 14 Arch... ...eed— 13 Cam. ’Beseech you— 14 Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my know-ledge: 15 we cannot with such magnificence... ... the freedome of my know-ledge: 15 we cannot with such magnificence— in so rare— 16 I know not what to say— Wee will giue you sleepie 17 ... ... Mam. Dwelt by a Church- yard: I will tell it softly, 626 Yond Crickets shall not heare it. 627 Her. Come on then, and giu’t me i... ...98 (And in Apollo’s Name) his Oracle. 1299 Her. The Emperor of Russia was my Father. 1300 Oh that he were aliue, and here beholding 1...

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...ill equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ..., and of caches along the high road, of how “where the gas-works is” was a cricket- field, and of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace... ...d. France achieved similar imbecilities; Germany was, if pos- sible worse; Russia under the waste and stresses of militarism festered towards bankrupt... ...ct Races. It had given these subject races cigarettes, boots, bowler hats, cricket, race meetings, cheap revolvers, petroleum, the factory system of i... ... and in many ways socially and politi- cally leading western civilisation. Russia was a pacific power perforce, divided within itself, torn between re...

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... a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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