Ivan: 1319 books

Insanity as described in the dictionary is an unreasonableness or unsoundness of mind, permanent or temporary, that makes a person incapable of what is regarded legally as normal, rational conduct or judgment; it usually implies a need for hospitalization. Faith is based on the belief in something...

The Crescent Beach Mall of South Carolina was your basic modern shopping centerboutiques, eateries, movie theaters, and a packed parking lotuntil the very fabric of reality unraveled. Now the mall is a supernatural oddity known worldwide as Pandoras Box. People travel from miles around to have their...

TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make his acquaintance about...

Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Maryino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes...

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance…...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS I. Introductory II. Pushkin III. Gogol IV. Turgenef V. Tolstoy the Artist VI. Tolstoy the Preacher

An upper-class Russian woman falls for a Bulgarian revolutionary in the summer of 1853, the eve of the devastating war that set the Russian empire against the Ottoman, British and French empires. The Crimean war broke out in October of that year.

Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Marino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called nihilism which the young men advocate.

The story follows a young man and a young woman, torn between love and politics. They struggle to make headway against the stifling conventions of provincial life, complacency of the powerful, and the misery of the powerless.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Considered to be Turgenev's greatest love story, The Torrents of Spring is a bittersweet story of young love steered astray by passion. While traveling through Germany, nobleman Dmitri Sanin meets Gemma Roselli, a beautiful...

Dear reader! I am pleased to inform you that finally it was possible to solve the oldest and the most impregnable mystery of our civilization. I assure you that this is not mere words. The mystery of the construction of the Great Egyptian Pyramids is deciphered once and for ever! This book is written...

A guide for anybody with a keen interest in the workings of the human brain. The story of Pavlov's dog being conditioned to drool is well known and has entered the common lexicon, this book is where that study was first published.