A Reckless Character, and Other Stories

There were eight of us in the room, and we were discussing contemporary matters and persons, "I do not understand these gentlemen!" remarked A.-"They are fellows of a reckless sort.... Really, desperate.... There has never been anything of the kind before." "Yes, there has," put in P., a grey-haired old man, who had been born about the twenties of the present century;-"there were reckless men in days gone by also. Some one said of the poet Yázykoff, that he had enthusiasm which was not directed to anything, an objectless enthusiasm; and it was much the same with those people-their recklessness was without an object. But see here, if you will permit me, I will narrate to you the story of my grandnephew, Mísha Pólteff. It may serve as a sample of the recklessness of those days."

• | Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 132 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1518763847
• | ISBN-13: 9781518763847