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- Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1512287997
- ISBN-13: 9781512287998
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Ivan Sergyevitch (Turgenev) has given us a most complete picture of Russian society. The same general types are always brought forward; and, as later writers have presented exactly similar ones, with but few modifications, we are forced to believe them true to life. First, the peasant: meek, resigned, dull, pathetic in suffering, like a child who does not know why he suffers; naturally sharp and tricky when not stupefied by liquor; occasionally roused to violent passion. Then, the intelligent middle class: the small landed proprietors of two generations. The old proprietor is ignorant and good-natured, of respectable family, but with coarse habits; hard, from long experience of serfdom, servile himself, but admirable in all other relations of life.
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- Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1512287997
- ISBN-13: 9781512287998
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Ivan Sergyevitch (Turgenev) has given us a most complete picture of Russian society. The same general types are always brought forward; and, as later writers have presented exactly similar ones, with but few modifications, we are forced to believe them true to life. First, the peasant: meek, resigned, dull, pathetic in suffering, like a child who does not know why he suffers; naturally sharp and tricky when not stupefied by liquor; occasionally roused to violent passion. Then, the intelligent middle class: the small landed proprietors of two generations. The old proprietor is ignorant and good-natured, of respectable family, but with coarse habits; hard, from long experience of serfdom, servile himself, but admirable in all other relations of life.
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