Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
French novels. Count Kostia
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Lock and Key Library: French novels. Count Kostia
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Most Interesting Stories of all Nations: French Novels
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465592172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
At 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.
A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with Life in France
Author: William Mc Crillis GriswoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Lock and Key Library: French novels
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Author: Catalogue of Books in English, French and German
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Russian literature. Period II. Italian literature. Period VIII. French literature. Period VIII. German literature. Period VI. English literature. Period VIII. German literature. Period VI. English literature. Period VIII. American literature. Period IV. Polish literature. Biographical list of authors. Chronological view of literature. English poets laureate. French academy (1898) General index
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Lock and Key Library
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602064636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Large Format for easy reading. a collection of both detective, occultism and magic short stories and articles. Arthur Train, David P. Abbott, Andrew Lang, M. Robert-Houdin and Hereward Carrington contribute.
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description