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The Duel (1916)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
February 21st 2008
by Kessinger Publishing
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I spent 7/8 of this book feeling that there was no initial momentum, no development and no direction. I was moderately interested by the vivid (if repetitive) descriptions of life in the military backwater the characters inhabit. But the, as the Melville House blurb states, the developments close to the end are "startling." The final head-long rush to resolution is worth - just barely - the investment of reader attention that leads to it.
One thing about the MHP edition, th...more
One thing about the MHP edition, th...more
Sneaky move by Melville House to include this in their "Art of the Novella" series. At 300+ pages, I'd hardly consider this "shorter than a novel." Still, I'm super pleased they did. This novel's a snapshot of an era in Czarist Russia. Published in 1905, and not translated until 1916, this work has many lines which serve as ironic and foretelling precursors to the two World Wars that lay in the nation's wait. I'll be returning to this one frequently for an in-depth review, bu...more
bacheha kesi in ketabo khoondeh?chapesh gahdimie va nemidoonam alan hast ya na.yadame avaiele karam bood (saale 76)reyisam engahdr karamo zood anjam midadam va ba'desh sholoogh mikaradam o nemizashtam baghie kar konan,bargasht goft"engar ye ketab hamrat bood,bizahmat beshin hamoono bekhoon!)oon ketab hamin ketab bood;)
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