Annouchka: A Tale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518793097)

I was then five-and-twenty, -that was a sufficient indication that I had a past, said he, beginning. My own master for some little time, I resolved to travel, -not to complete my education, as they said at the time, but to see the world. I was young, light-hearted, in good health, free from every care, with a well-filled purse; I gave no thought to the future; I indulged every whim, -in fact, I lived like a flower that expands in the sun. The idea that man is but a plant, and that its flower can only live a short time, had not yet occurred to me. "Youth," says a Russian proverb, "lives upon gilded gingerbread, which it ingenuously takes for bread; then one day even bread fail

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
ISBN-10: 1518793096
ISBN-13: 9781518793097
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2015
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d