French novels. Count Kostia
Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 390
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Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 390
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 384
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 1465592172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of the summer of 1850, a Russian nobleman, Count Kostia Petrovitch Leminof, had the misfortune to lose his wife suddenly, and in the flower of her beauty. She was his junior by twelve years. This cruel loss, for which he was totally unprepared, threw him into a state of profound melancholy; and some months later, seeking to mitigate his grief by the distractions of travel, he left his domains near Moscow, never intending to return. Accompanied by his twin children, ten years of age, a priest who had served them as tutor, and a serf named Ivan, he repaired to Odessa, and then took passage on a merchant ship for Martinique. Disembarking at St. Pierre, he took lodgings in a remote part of the suburbs. The profound solitude which reigned there did not at first bring the consolation he had sought. It was not enough that he had left his native country, he would have changed the planet itself; and he complained that nature everywhere was too much alike. No locality seemed to him sufficiently a stranger to his experience, and in the deserted places, where the desperate restlessness of his heart impelled him, he imagined the reappearance of the obtrusive witnesses of his past joys, and of the misfortune by which they were suddenly terminated. He had lived a year in Martinique when the yellow fever carried off one of his children. By a singular reaction in his vigorous temperament, it was about this time that his somber melancholy gave way to a bitter and sarcastic gayety, more in harmony with his nature. From his early youth he had had a taste for jocularity, a mocking turn of spirit, seasoned by that ironical grace of manner peculiar to the great Moscovite nobleman, and resulting from the constant habit of trifling with men and events. His recovery did not, however, restore the agreeable manners which in former times had distinguished him in his intercourse with the world. Suffering had brought him a leaven of misanthropy, which he did not take the trouble of disguising; his voice had lost its caressing notes and had become rude and abrupt; his actions were brusque, and his smile scornful. Sometimes his bearing gave evidence of a haughty will which, tyrannized over by events, sought to avenge itself upon mankind.
Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 382
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 414
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses 19th century French novelists and their influential works.
Author: John Clark Ridpath
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 538
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 892
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Published: 2023-08-30
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 338701693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Julian Hawthorne
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 378
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