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Futility

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Andrei Andreiech, a young Russian-English man, finds himself in the company of the three lovely daughters of the Bursanov family. Their father, Nikolai Vasilievich, is a man of potential means, but besides a large house most of his wealth is tied up in a series of non-productive Siberian goldmines. Still, the possibility of future income is enough to keep him afloat, along with his daughters, his ... Read more

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Andrei Andreiech, a young Russian-English man, finds himself in the company of the three lovely daughters of the Bursanov family. Their father, Nikolai Vasilievich, is a man of potential means, but besides a large house most of his wealth is tied up in a series of non-productive Siberian goldmines. Still, the possibility of future income is enough to keep him afloat, along with his daughters, his
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Futility: A Novel

by William Gerhardie, Edith Wharton ...

First published in 1922, public domain in the US. William Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg where he was raised and falls in love with the daughter of a highly eccentric and dysfunctional family – a relationship which is played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching outside the parlour window. ... Read more

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First published in 1922, public domain in the US. William Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg where he was raised and falls in love with the daughter of a highly eccentric and dysfunctional family – a relationship which is played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching outside the parlour window.
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Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

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There are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who will not readily acknowledge that, in certain most intrinsic qualities of the art, the great Russians are what Henry James once called Balzac, the masters of us all. To many readers of the western world, however, there was—there still is, despite the blinding glare which the Russian disaster has shed on the national character—a recurring sense of ... Read more

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There are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who will not readily acknowledge that, in certain most intrinsic qualities of the art, the great Russians are what Henry James once called Balzac, the masters of us all. To many readers of the western world, however, there was—there still is, despite the blinding glare which the Russian disaster has shed on the national character—a recurring sense of
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The Polyglots

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First published in 1925, public domain in the US. The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre ... Read more

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First published in 1925, public domain in the US. The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre
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Pretty creatures

by William Alexander Gerhardie ...

Published in 1946, Pretty Creatures is a sharply observant novel of manners in which William Alexander Gerhardie turns his comic-ironic eye upon love, vanity, and the elaborate self-deceptions of cultivated society. The book examines human relationships with a light yet penetrating touch, exposing the fragility of romantic idealism beneath polished social performance. Gerhardie's style is ... Read more

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Published in 1946, Pretty Creatures is a sharply observant novel of manners in which William Alexander Gerhardie turns his comic-ironic eye upon love, vanity, and the elaborate self-deceptions of cultivated society. The book examines human relationships with a light yet penetrating touch, exposing the fragility of romantic idealism beneath polished social performance. Gerhardie's style is
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Futility

A novel on Russian themes

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William Gerhardie's Futility is a comic yet piercing novel of post-Revolutionary Russia, following the chaotic Bursanov family and the bemused English observer who records their decline. Blending satire, pathos, and anti-climactic comedy, Gerhardie turns political upheaval into a study of drift, frustrated desire, and the absurd weakness of human intention. Its style is light, conversational, and ... Read more

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William Gerhardie's Futility is a comic yet piercing novel of post-Revolutionary Russia, following the chaotic Bursanov family and the bemused English observer who records their decline. Blending satire, pathos, and anti-climactic comedy, Gerhardie turns political upheaval into a study of drift, frustrated desire, and the absurd weakness of human intention. Its style is light, conversational, and
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Futility

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Edith Wharton hailed Futility as a rare novel that makes Russian life vivid and intelligible to Western readers, and William Gerhardi's story lives up to that praise with wit, sympathy, and emotional force. From the narrator's return to Vladivostok, the harbor and city become a threshold of memory, departure, and uneasy belonging, leading him into the shabby rooms, seaside datchas, and crowded ... Read more

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Edith Wharton hailed Futility as a rare novel that makes Russian life vivid and intelligible to Western readers, and William Gerhardi's story lives up to that praise with wit, sympathy, and emotional force. From the narrator's return to Vladivostok, the harbor and city become a threshold of memory, departure, and uneasy belonging, leading him into the shabby rooms, seaside datchas, and crowded
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Eva's apples

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by William Alexander Gerhardie ...

William Gerhardie's Eva's Apples is a subtle, ironic novel of manners in which private desire, memory, and social performance are delicately entangled. Set within the cultivated yet unstable world characteristic of Gerhardie's fiction, the book examines emotional misunderstanding and the elusive nature of intimacy through prose that is elegant, lightly satirical, and psychologically alert. Its ... Read more

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William Gerhardie's Eva's Apples is a subtle, ironic novel of manners in which private desire, memory, and social performance are delicately entangled. Set within the cultivated yet unstable world characteristic of Gerhardie's fiction, the book examines emotional misunderstanding and the elusive nature of intimacy through prose that is elegant, lightly satirical, and psychologically alert. Its
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Futility: A Novel On Russian Themes (Unabridged)

by WILLIAM ALEXANDER GERHARDI ...

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From the preface written by Edith Wharton: Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the tale and the journey ended together. This, it seems to me, is the most striking quality of Mr. Gerhardi's book: that he has enough of the true ... Read more

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From the preface written by Edith Wharton: Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the tale and the journey ended together. This, it seems to me, is the most striking quality of Mr. Gerhardi's book: that he has enough of the true
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Futility

A Novel

by Edith Wharton, William Gerhardie ...

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Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces.It tells the story of someone very similar to Gerhardie himself: a young Englishman raised in Russia ... Read more

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Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces.It tells the story of someone very similar to Gerhardie himself: a young Englishman raised in Russia
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From Double Eagle To Red Flag

by General P. N. Krassnoff ...

Translated by Erik Law-Gisiko ...

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (1869-1947) was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917 and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterward. According to its introduction, From Double Eagle to Red Flag "was born of the debris of Imperial Russia, conceived in the shadow of Leo Tolstoy's historical narrative, by a Russian General with ... Read more

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Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (1869-1947) was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917 and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterward. According to its introduction, From Double Eagle to Red Flag "was born of the debris of Imperial Russia, conceived in the shadow of Leo Tolstoy's historical narrative, by a Russian General with
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The Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories: The Death Of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, Master And Man (Mobi Classics)

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The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories: Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; Master and Man Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, William S. Gottsberger, Benjamin R. Tucker The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is one of Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction. This work stems in part from Tolstoy's anguished ... Read more

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The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories: Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; Master and Man Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, William S. Gottsberger, Benjamin R. Tucker The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is one of Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction. This work stems in part from Tolstoy's anguished
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