The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her story is universal but not, I think, banal despite a surprise ending which...
Poezdka V Polesye By Ivan S. Turgenev
To tell the truth, this story A trip to Polesye is not so much complicated with philosophical or psychological ideas. In this story author had another goal to describe the...
Ivan Matveyitch
Between five and six in the evening. A fairly well-known man of learning is sitting in his study nervously biting his nails. 'It's positively revolting,' he says, continually...
Ivan The Fool
The story of Ivan the Fool and his two brothers Simon the Warrior and Taras the Pot-Bellied, and of his deaf and dumb sister, and the old Devil and three little Devilkins.