Books with author Constance Garnett

Among the stories is one of Chekhov's classics, "The Bet," in which a greedy banker makes an ill-considered bet regarding capital punishment with a young and impressionable guest. Fifteen years later -- the surprise ending provides one of Chekhov's most thought-provoking tales. The title story is a careful reminder of the soul-deadening life of a teacher in the Russian countryside -- for in Russia of Chekhov's day, education was less-valued than it is today, and teachers greatly underpaid and undervalued. Chekhov was of a different social background than more aristocratic Russian authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev -- this offered him an insight into character that differed from theirs. A physician as well, Chekhov's observational skills are clear in this, as with all of his collections of short fiction. These stories will remind the reader of other 19th Century masters of short fiction, such as Maupassant. But their nature, and poetic irony, is exclusively that of Anton Chekhov.Included in this volume are "Enemies," "The Schoolmaster," "The Examining Magistrate," "Betrothed," "From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man," "In the Dark," "A Play," "A Mystery," "Strong Impressions," "Drunk," "The Marshal's Widow," "A Bad Business," "In the Court," "Boots," "Joy," "Ladies," "A Peculiar Man," "At the Barber's," "An Inadvertence," "The Album," "Oh! the Public," "A Tripping Tongue," "Overdoing It," "The Orator," "Malingerers," "In the Graveyard," "Hush!," "In an Hotel," and "In a Strange Land."

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her own insecurities, and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy, where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances, she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing loss of control. A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Lëvin or Ljovin, a wealthy country landowner who wants to marry Princess Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Oblonsky. Konstantin has to propose twice before Kitty accepts. The novel details Konstantin's difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and his struggle to accept the Christian faith, until the birth of his first child.

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories is a collection of seven short stories. The title story, Chekhov’s most famous, describes an affair between two unhappily married people who meet by chance at the seaside resort of Yalta while vacationing alone. The affair becomes a love that endures after each returns home and leads to clandestine meetings and the inevitable heartbreak that comes from distance, lengthy absences and the impossibility of leaving their established lives. In “An Upheaval” a young governess suffers the indignity of having her room searched in her absence by the lady of the house. “A Doctor’s Visit” centers on an inner connection that develops between a doctor and the young heiress he has been called to examine that goes unexpressed. “Ionitch” also charts the evolution of a missed romantic opportunity between a young doctor with a promising future and a coquettish young woman from an artistic family. “The Head of the Family” is a wealthy, pompous ass who drinks and gambles and bullies anyone without the good sense to stay as far away as possible, most notably his young son. “Volodya” displays the emotional distress of a conflicted, frustrated teenage being raised in awkward surroundings by a vain single mother. “The Husband” portrays a mean-spirited, ill-humored tax collector who meanly spirits his wife away from a dance with a visiting regiment for having too much fun. As always, Chekhov portrays real life in all its wonder and horrors, its plainness and mystery, with the telling details and revealing remarks, without judging, for all to see.

A Sportsman's Sketches (also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) is an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published singly in The Contemporary before appearing in 1852 in book form. He was about to give up writing when the first story, "Khor and Kalinich", was well received. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. The work as a whole actually led to Turgenev’s house arrest (part of the reason, the other being his epitaph to Nikolai Gogol) at Spasskoye. It was also partially responsible for the abolition of serfdom in Russia.

About the Book Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who is known by Christians as the Christ. It is the world's largest religion, with over 2.4 billion followers, or 33% of the global population. Christians are a majority of the population in approximately two-thirds of the countries in the world. Christians believe Jesus is the Son of God, and the savior of humanity, who came to earth as the Messiah, as prophesied in the Old Testament.About us Leopold Classic Library has the goal of making available to readers the classic books that have been out of print for decades. While these books may have occasional imperfections, we consider that only hand checking of every page ensures readable content without poor picture quality, blurred or missing text etc. That's why we: republish only hand checked books; that are high quality; enabling readers to see classic books in original formats; that are unlikely to have missing or blurred pages. You can search "Leopold Classic Library" in categories of your interest to find other books in our extensive collection. Happy reading!

From "The Dream": I was living at that time with my mother in a little seaside town. I was in my seventeenth year, while my mother was not quite five-and-thirty; she had married very young. When my father died, I was only seven years old, but I remember him well. My mother was a fair-haired woman, not very tall, with a charming, but always sad-looking face, a soft, tired voice and timid gestures. In her youth she had been reputed a beauty, and to the end she remained attractive and pretty. I have never seen deeper, tenderer, and sadder eyes, finer and softer hair; I never saw hands so exquisite. I adored her, and she loved me. . . . But our life was not a bright one; a secret, hopeless, undeserved sorrow seemed forever gnawing at the very root of her being. This sorrow could not be accounted for by the loss of my father simply, great as that loss was to her, passionately as my mother had loved him, and devoutly as she had cherished his memory. . . . No! something more lay hidden in it, which I did not understand, but of which I was aware, dimly and yet intensely aware, whenever I looked into those soft and unchanging eyes, at those lips, unchanging too, not compressed in bitterness, but, as it were, forever set in one expression. I have said that my mother loved me; but there were moments when she repulsed me, when my presence was oppressive to her, unendurable. At such times she felt a sort of involuntary aversion for me, and was horrified afterwards, blamed herself with tears, pressed me to her heart.

This is the first biography for young people of the Swedish-American genius who invented the Monitor- the revolutionary ironclad warship that, at the very moment Lincoln was considering evacuating Washington during the civil War, turned the tide of battle for the North in the historic duel with the "Merrimac." But the "Monitor" was the only one of the spectacular achievements of John Ericsson's genius. From childhood, when he built a working model of his father's iron foundry, until very old age, when he was experimenting with a the harnessing of solar energy. Ericsson's life was a dramatic unfolding of extraordinary talent and indomitable zeal in the fields of mechanics, draftsmanship, map making, and every phase of engineering. His was the path of the dedicated scientist: the intense yearning to analyze and understand, to see problems in a new light, to attack them with infinite patience and immeasurable daring. Every young person interested in the sea and naval warfare, in the Civil War, in America's contribution to engineering and science, and in the struggle of a man to achieve the best that is in him will find Captain John Ericson as fascinating as the "Monitor's" inventor was a man.

"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" is Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus of philosophy and religious thought. The book is cited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the chief influences in the development of his philosophy of non-violence. Tolstoy takes the reader to the heart of the message of Jesus Christ, laying aside the common dogmas of the church in favor of a literal understanding of Christ's teachings. This brings his philosophy to one of strict non-violence and a complete overhaul of the structures of modern society. The work is a masterpiece in the realm of Christianity.

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