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One of Cleopatra’s Nights

November 18, 2014 / Leave a comment

(Une nuit de Cléopâtre) Théophile Gautier 1838 (A young hunter is willing to die to be with queen Cleopatra for just one evening.) Word for word, this little novella (three times the length of a typical short story at about 12,700 words) probably paints the most vibrant description of ancient Egypt in all of literature. […]

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First Love

October 4, 2014 / 2 Comments on First Love

(Первая любовь) Ivan Turgenev 1860 (A young man is thrown into the sweet agony of unrequited love for his beautiful new neighbor.) Woldemar, a young man of sixteen, experiences the whirlwind of love descending on him for the first time, as he becomes acquainted with the beautiful and elegant Zinaida, the daughter of a princess, […]

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