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A Reckless Character
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Title: A Reckless Character And Other Stories
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Translator: Isabel Hapgood
Release Date: June 6, 2005 [EBook #15994]
Language: English
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A RECKLESS CHARACTER
And Other Stories
BY
IVÁN TURGÉNIEFF
Translated from the Russian by ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
NEW YORK, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1907.
CONTENTS:
A RECKLESS CHARACTER THE DREAM FATHER ALEXYÉI'S STORY OLD PORTRAITS THE SONG OF LOVE TRIUMPHANT CLARA MÍLITCH POEMS IN PROSE ENDNOTES
A RECKLESS CHARACTER[1]
(1881)
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There were eight of us in the room, and we were discussing contemporary matters and persons,
"I do not understand these gentlemen!" remarked A.--"They are fellows of a reckless sort.... Really, desperate.... There has never been anything of the kind before."
"Yes, there has," put in P., a grey-haired old man, who had been born about the twenties of the present century;--"there were reckless men in days gone by also. Some one said of the poet Yázykoff, that he had enthusiasm which was not directed to anything, an objectless enthusiasm; and it was much the same with those people--their recklessness was without an object. But see he