item: #1 of 5 id: 20980 author: Hapgood, Isabel Florence title: A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections date: None words: 82984 flesch: 68 summary: What picture of Russian life do they bring before us? BIBLIOGRAPHY _History of Russia. She ceased journalistic work in 1774, and then introduced on the stage, in her comedies, the same types and aspects of Russian life which she had previously presented in her satirical articles. keywords: art; author; book; century; character; church; class; count; day; dead; death; dostoévsky; emperor; epic; epoch; family; father; general; god; good; government; great; head; history; holy; house; influence; iván; language; life; like; literary; literature; love; man; men; moscow; mother; new; peasant; people; period; peter; petersburg; place; poems; poetry; present; prince; púshkin; reign; russian; school; sea; service; set; society; songs; spirit; style; tales; thou; thy; time; tolstóy; turgéneff; tzar; way; wife; woman; work; writers; written; years cache: 20980.txt plain text: 20980.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 31554 author: Panin, Ivan title: Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy date: None words: 42722 flesch: 74 summary: This green earth has rolled on, this green earth will roll on, label or no label; and the mystery of God men knew not before gravitation, nor do they know it now with gravitation. For such a strange disharmony in the lives of Russian men of letters, the government is largely responsible. keywords: art; artist; beauty; book; christ; days; eyes; father; form; friends; god; gogol; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; life; like; literature; love; man; men; nature; place; preacher; purpose; pushkin; russian; soul; spirit; thee; thou; thy; time; tolstoy; turgenef; voice; wind; words; work; years cache: 31554.txt plain text: 31554.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 38025 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales date: None words: 142883 flesch: 88 summary: And it also seemed strange to him how every one considered--that he saw--old people to be firm and to know what was necessary and what not (thus he always thought about old men), and there he was old and positively failed to know, and was just as frivolous as he had been twenty years before; the only difference was that formerly he did not conceal it, while now he did. I have just come to hear what you, good man, are telling about. keywords: children; county; cut; day; devil; education; eliséy; eyes; father; feet; felt; god; good; hands; head; home; house; instruction; iván; king; left; let; life; look; man; masses; master; men; method; money; new; order; peasants; people; place; question; right; road; room; roubles; saw; school; semén; snow; soldiers; son; tartars; teacher; things; thought; time; tree; village; water; way; wife; wolf; woman; work; year; young; zhilín cache: 38025.txt plain text: 38025.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 41495 author: Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de title: Russia: Its People and Its Literature date: None words: 74938 flesch: 53 summary: It met with amazing success; for the first time the public found an author who could give them a true picture of Russian life. Of his short stories, his episodes of Russian life, I know not which to select; they are filigree and jewels, wrought by the Benvenuto of his trade; brass is gold in his hands, and his chisel excels at every point. keywords: art; author; book; century; character; classes; country; czar; day; dead; death; dostoiëwsky; europe; fact; family; father; french; general; gogol; good; hand; heart; hero; history; human; idea; influence; intellectual; land; life; literature; love; man; means; men; mind; national; nature; nihilism; novel; novelist; order; peasant; people; place; poet; power; public; puchkine; race; realism; revolutionary; russian; society; sort; soul; spirit; state; study; time; tolstoï; truth; turguenief; war; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 41495.txt plain text: 41495.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 9619 author: Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseevich title: Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? date: None words: 54987 flesch: 88 summary: His state is so sorry That even the Barin Has pity upon him, And says to him sweetly, 'Your own fault it is, Little peasant, you know!' And this was, good peasants, Full three hundred years back! keywords: barin; brothers; children; day; drink; elder; eyes; face; father; forest; god; good; head; heart; home; know; left; life; look; man; master; matróna; mother; nekrassov; night; peasants; people; pomyéshchick; pope; pray; prince; round; russia; savyéli; song; tell; time; tsar; village; vodka; white; woman; work; years; érmil cache: 9619.txt plain text: 9619.txt