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...Master Is the Master." Unlike his contemporaries, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev was a "Westerner," and he he thought Russia should copy the ways of of the industrialized West. Many of his novels, e.g., Fathers and Sons, Rudin, revolve around the political experiences of young Russian intellectuals discontented with czarism - and with the melancholy aftermaths of their disappointed loves. But his first prose work, and his best, lives on as a radiant example of pastoral charm that often overshadows Turgenev's concern for social injustice...
...Slavic Department was completely reorganized this year, and now has much variety as any department in the College. One can take courses in anything from Comparative Slavic Linguistics and Beginning Ukranian to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, each taught by outstanding specialists...
...reports we received of the trial convinced me beyond doubt that Yamashita was a general who was doing his duty, completely ignorant and innocent of the murderous actions of his troops, and strangely similar in character and actions to the kindly, intelligent and duty-conscious General Kutuzov of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
What's in a Name? Since Oscar Wilde and Omar Khayyam went to work for him, Haldeman-Julius has also taken on Plato, Dante, Tolstoy, Goethe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Tom Paine. But the big names are rarely the biggest drawing cards. De Maupassant's Tallow Ball sold only a poky 15,000 copies a year until Haldeman-Julius re-christened it A Prostitute's Sacrifice (it jumped to about 55,000 a year).* The bestselling Blue Books are those on sex, psychoanalysis and self-improvement; Haldeman-Julius has them written to order...
...Tolstoy described his grey-eyed, red-lipped heroine as "so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile." And, Tolstoy added, she had "a rather fully developed figure...