Переводчик Isabel Hapgood

SevastopolLyof N. Tolstoï Sevastopol SEVASTOPOL IN DECEMBER, 1854 The flush of morning has but just begun to tinge the sky above Sapun Mountain; the dark blue surface of the sea has already cast aside the shades of night and awaits the first ray to begin a play of merry gleams; cold and mist are ...

The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other StoriesIván Turgénieff The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories PREFACE "In 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man,'" says one well-known Russian critic, "we have to deal with the end of the pathological process upon the body of Russian society. In Turg...

Notre-Dame De ParisVictor Hugo Notre-Dame De Paris PREFACE A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall: —ANANKE. These Greek capitals, black with ...

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Miserables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who spent nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Val...