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Available
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PENGUIN GROUP (2015)
Description
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
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LibraryThing member SashaM
I found these stories a bit too preachy for my taste. The character of Kaysan is a surly and preachy man who condemns it companion to shooting for sport (not something I approve of myself) but then saying he traps nightingale's and gives them to people he likes (but that's totally different
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according to him because he doesn't "harm" them). From a modern sensibility his justification holds no water. Basically these stories embrace the contradictory nature of Christianity. Show Less
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ISBN
014139871X / 9780141398716
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