A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

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A Reckless Character, and Other Stories is credited to Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. One piece has eight people in a room discussing contemporary matters and persons, and a speaker named A. calls certain men fellows of a reckless sort. A grey-haired old man called P. says there were reckless men in days gone by also. A character named Mísha brags of a Circassian sabre he obtained in barter, and the officers express doubt whether it is really genuine.

Mísha takes the bet that he will not go, saddles his horse and rides off to Abdulka, and is gone for three days. A woman who worshipped her nephew was constantly fretting about his health and, as soon as she thought there was anything the matter with him, would quietly place a cup of herb-tea on his writing-table, and the text says the coddling did not annoy Yákoff.

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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright, the first of his countrymen to win a wide European readership. A friend of Flaubert and Henry James, he wrote with a spare lyricism, and his Fathers and Sons remains a landmark of the nineteenth-century novel.