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"Very little. Oh D'Annunzio and some Turgenev and a little Tourgenieff.... That last was a joke, you know." "Oh yes," disconcertedly. "What sorts of plays do you go to, Mr. Wrenn?" "Moving pictures mostly," he said, easily, then bitterly wished he hadn't confessed so low-life a habit.
This mystic attribute, this élan of the soul, discovers a fellowship in thinkers wide apart in circumstance and mental environment. It is, for instance, the trait which Schopenhauer, Tourgenieff, Flaubert, and Carlyle possess in common . These men are not as others of their time, but prophet voices that announce the Fourth, the latest Age, whose dawn has laid its hand upon the eastern hills.
Katiousha had to do all the housework, but she managed to do her duty and found spare time for reading. He gave her the works of Dostoievsky and Tourgenieff to read. Those descriptive of the beauties of nature she liked best.
How often he had turned his face to the wall, willing to die. Perhaps it was this dead city of stones and the sea that wrought so on his spirit. Tourgénieff was right; only the young should come here, not those who had seen with Virgil the tears of things.
Hence, on the one hand, the sudden vogue of the novelists of the younger countries Tolstoi and Tourgenieff, Ibsen and Bjornson, Mary Wilkins and Howells who transplanted us at once into fresh scenes, new people: hence, on the other hand, the tendency on the part of our own latest writers the Stevensons, the Hall Caines, the Marion Crawfords, the Rider Haggards to go far afield among the lower races or the later civilisations for the themes of their romances.
"But, Ideala," Claudia protested, "what is the use of drawing degrading comparisons between ourselves and other nations? You gave great offence last night." "I said more than I intended," she answered; "I always do. It was Tourgenieff, was it not, who said that the age of talkers must precede the age of practical reformers? I seem to have been born in the age of talkers.
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