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A Desperate Character and Other Stories
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| Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 16 June 2011 |
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 A Desperate Character and Other Stories
The six tales now translated for the English reader were written by Turgenev at various dates between 1847 and 1881. These stories demonstrate Turgenev’s matchless skill for portraying elemental aspects of Russian life: the melancholic, the nostalgic, and the darkly comic. |
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| Tags: Russian, melancholic, aspects, elemental, portraying, Desperate, Stories, Other, Character |
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The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems (Poetry)
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| Added by: littlecrabpig | Karma: 227.82 | Fiction literature | 2 February 2011 |
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 The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems (Poetry)
In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How do I love thee?' and Shakespeare's 'Shall I compare theee to a summer's day?' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope and John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious 'Valentine' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy's haunting 'After a Journey', for example, and Larkin's poignant 'Love Songs in Age'. |
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| Tags: poems, There, heart, those, melancholic, Poetry, Nation, Poems, Favourite |
