Literary-Blog
The House of the Dead
Picture this: a Siberian winter so cold it steals your breath, turning it to ice before it leaves your lips. Inside a squalid, overcrowded prison barracks, a former aristocrat –...
The House of the Dead
Picture this: a Siberian winter so cold it steals your breath, turning it to ice before it leaves your lips. Inside a squalid, overcrowded prison barracks, a former aristocrat –...
Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”, from ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, is undoubtedly one of the most famous opening excerpts in literature. The...
Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”, from ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, is undoubtedly one of the most famous opening excerpts in literature. The...
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Dostoevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) explores several profound philosophical and existential themes, characteristic of his later works. The dream sequence presents an Eden-like civilization untouched...
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Dostoevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) explores several profound philosophical and existential themes, characteristic of his later works. The dream sequence presents an Eden-like civilization untouched...
"..with plumage bright as frosty dawns,.."
During the turmoil of the 1917 Russian Revolution, it was common for the families, with their chattels, of the partisans to follow the army as it moved to various locations....
"..with plumage bright as frosty dawns,.."
During the turmoil of the 1917 Russian Revolution, it was common for the families, with their chattels, of the partisans to follow the army as it moved to various locations....
"Civilization Is A Veneer"
“A camp is a negative school of life. No one ever gets anything worthwhile out of it….A man becomes less, not more.” -Varlam Shalamov- During his imprisonment in Soviet prison...
"Civilization Is A Veneer"
“A camp is a negative school of life. No one ever gets anything worthwhile out of it….A man becomes less, not more.” -Varlam Shalamov- During his imprisonment in Soviet prison...
Truth Is A Virtue
In Alexander Pushkin’s “The Captain’s Daughter”, Pyotr Grinyov is a young noble caught in a violent uprising known as Pugachev’s Rebellion. Pushkin uses this character to contrast how truth becomes...
Truth Is A Virtue
In Alexander Pushkin’s “The Captain’s Daughter”, Pyotr Grinyov is a young noble caught in a violent uprising known as Pugachev’s Rebellion. Pushkin uses this character to contrast how truth becomes...