"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
It's my first time reading anything by Chekhov, and it might also be my last. I'm clearly not smart enough for this. Both "The Lady with the Little Dog" and "The House with the Mezzanine" are stories of unfulfilled or wrongly-fulfilled love, and so is the...
It's hard to give five stars to a collection of stories, since some are bound to strike you more than others, bit up until a certain point I was tempted. "Spring in Fialta" "A Forgotten Poet" "First Love" "Signs and Symbols" "The Assistant Producer" "The Aurelian" "Cloud, Castle, Lake" "Conversation Piece, 1945" "That in...
After War and Peace, every character ranks a score between 1 and Pierre. On a scale from 1 to Pierre, The Cossacks' main character ranks a solid 9, with his strife for happiness and his zero idea of how to achieve it. Leo Tolstoy’s The Cossacks...
This particular collection, in the charming Penguin's clothbound classics, contains three sets of stories: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, a collection of short stories; the fairly lengthy novella Dubrovsky; and the titular Queen of Spades. Though I would have appreciated the title to better reflect the...
I'm satisfied.Satisfied and surprised.Satisfied because this book, since reading the Peanuts as a child, is the Ultimate Achievement. Once you've read it, you feel you can achieve everything. You could even be the first beagle to land on the moon.And satisfied because… by God, this...
