Excerpt from La Mort d'Ivan IliitchPiotte Ivanovitch et ma femme sera tres contente. Elle ne pourra plus dire que je n'ai rien fait pour ses pa rents.

La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

Excerpt from Les DécembristesAlexandre accepta la renonciation de Constantin, et eeconnut pour hëñtier son second frère, -le grand-dud Nicolas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Les Décembristes (Classic Reprint)

It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.

And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do.

And learned men came to the King, but they all answered his questions differently...

What Men Live By

Anna Karenine est une jeune femme mariee a Alexis Karenine, fidele et mere d'un jeune garcon, Serge. Anna Karenine se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski. Anna tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Elle lutte contre cette passion et finit pourtant par s'abandonner avec un bonheur coupable au courant qui la porte vers ce jeune officier. Puis Anna tombe enceinte. Se sentant coupable et profondement deprimee par sa faute, elle decide d'avouer son infidelite a son mari.

Anna Karenine Tome I

Cette immense fresque de l'aristocratie mêlée au peuple russe, à la ville comme aux champs, fait partie des grandes oeuvres de l'humanité. "En elles, il y a tout: les vrais hommes; les vraies femmes, l'amour et la haine, "l'élite" et le peuple, la naissance et la mort, le travail et la pensée."

Anna Karénine 2

Russie, 1880. Anna Karenine, est une jeune femme de la haute societe de Saint-Petersbourg. Elle est mariee a Alexis Karenine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration imperiale, un personnage austere et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garcon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski, venu a la rencontre de sa mere. Elle tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole."

Anna Karenine - Tome I

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Résurrection; Roman. Illustrations de Kauffmann

Excerpt from Qu'Est-ce Que l'Art?: Traduit du Russe Et Precede d'une IntroductionPour l'entretien de l'art en Russie (ou c'est a peine si, pour l'education du peuple, on depense la centieme partie de ce qu'on devrait depenser), le gouvernement accorde des millions de roubles, sous la forme de subventions aux academies, thea tres et conservatoires. En France, l'art coute a l'etat vingt millions de francs; il coute au moins autant en Allemagne et en Angleterre.

Qu'est-Ce Que l'Art?: Traduit Du Russe Et Précédé d'Une Introduction (Classic Reprint)

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literature. French and English and German authors, too, occasionally, offer works of lofty, simple naturalness; but the very keynote to the whole of Russian literature is simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness.

Another essentially Russian trait is the quite unaffected conception that the lowly are on a plane of equality with the so-called upper classes. When the Englishman Dickens wrote with his profound pity and understanding of the poor, there was yet a bit; of remoteness, perhaps, even, a bit of caricature, in his treatment of them. He showed their sufferings to the rest of the world with a "Behold how the other half lives!" The Russian writes of the poor, as it were, from within, as one of them, with no eye to theatrical effect upon the well-to-do. There is no insistence upon peculiar virtues or vices. The poor are portrayed just as they are, as human beings like the rest of us. A democratic spirit is reflected, breathing a broad humanity, a true universality, an unstudied generosity that proceed not from the intellectual conviction that to understand all is to forgive all, but from an instinctive feeling that no man has the right to set himself up as a judge over another, that one can only observe and record.

La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

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