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Constance Garnett

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Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. [1]

60 relations: A Sportsman's Sketches, Alexander Herzen, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ann Dunnigan, Anna Karenina, Anton Chekhov, Anyuta (short story), Ariadne (short story), Arthur Black (mathematician), Brighton, Brighton and Hove High School, British Museum, Clementina Black, Crime and Punishment, Crockham Hill, D. H. Lawrence, David Garnett, David Magarshack, Demons (Dostoevsky novel), Dictionary of National Biography, Donald Rayfield, Easter Eve (short story), Edward Garnett, Fathers and Sons (novel), Feliks Volkhovsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Patten, Greek language, Home of the Gentry, Humiliated and Insulted, Ibiblio, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Jonathan Cape, Joseph Brodsky, Joseph Conrad, Latin, Leo Tolstoy, Newnham College, Cambridge, Nikolai Gogol, Notes from Underground, On the Eve, Public domain, Rosemary Edmonds, Rudin, Saint Petersburg, Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Smoke (novel), The Bishop (short story), The Brothers Karamazov, ..., The Darling (short story), The Idiot, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, The Steppe (novella), Three Years, Torrents of Spring, Virgin Soil, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, Yasnaya Polyana. Expand index (10 more) »

A Sportsman's Sketches

A Sportsman's Sketches («Записки охотника» Zapiski ohotnika; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) is an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev.

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Alexander Herzen

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (also Aleksandr Ivanovič Gercen, Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).

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Alexander Ostrovsky

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский;, Moscow, Russian Empire, Shchelykovo, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period.

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Ann Dunnigan

Ann Dunnigan was an American actress and teacher who later became a translator of 19th-century Russian literature.

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina (p) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Anyuta (short story)

"Anyuta" (Анюта) is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.

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Ariadne (short story)

"Ariadne" (Ариадна) is an 1895 short story by Anton Chekhov.

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Arthur Black (mathematician)

Arthur Black (1851–1893) was an English mathematician.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Brighton and Hove High School

Brighton & Hove High School is an independent day school for girls aged 3–18 in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Clementina Black

Clementina Maria Black (27 July 1853 – 19 December 1922) was an English writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist, closely connected with Marxist and Fabian socialists.

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (Pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Crockham Hill

Crockham Hill is a village in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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David Garnett

David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was a British writer and publisher.

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David Magarshack

David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol.

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Demons (Dostoevsky novel)

Demons (pre-reform Russian: Бѣсы; post-reform Bésy; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–2.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Donald Rayfield

(Patrick) Donald Rayfield (born February 1942, Oxford) is professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London.

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Easter Eve (short story)

"Easter Eve" (translit) is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.

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Edward Garnett

Edward William Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published.

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Fathers and Sons (novel)

Fathers and Sons («Отцы и дети»; Ottsy i deti,; archaic spelling Отцы и дѣти), also translated more literally as Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev.

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Feliks Volkhovsky

Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky (Феликс Вадимович Волховский; 1846 in Poltava – July 21 (August 3), 1914) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.

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George Patten

George Patten (1801–1865) was an English portrait and historical painter.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Home of the Gentry

Home of the Gentry («Дворянское гнездо»), also translated as A Nest of the Gentlefolk and A Nest of the Gentry, is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik.

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Humiliated and Insulted

Humiliated and Insulted (Униженные и оскорблённые, Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye) — also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult — is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.

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Ibiblio

ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

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Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (Goncharoff) (r; –) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869).

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian speaking dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

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Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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On the Eve

On the Eve («Накануне», Nakanune) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Rosemary Edmonds

Rosemary Edmonds (20 October 1905 – 26 July 1998), born Rosemary Lilian Dickie, was a British translator of Russian literature whose versions of the novels of Leo Tolstoy have been in print for 50 years.

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Rudin

Rudin («Рудин») is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky

Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Серге́й Миха́йлович Степня́к-Кравчи́нский; July 1, 1851 – 23 December 1895), known in the 19th century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak, was a Ukrainian revolutionary mainly known for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Russia's Gendarme corps and the head of the country's secret police, with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 1878.

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Smoke (novel)

Smoke («Дым») is an 1867 novel by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the story of a love affair between a young Russian man and a young married Russian woman while also delivering the author's criticism of Russia and Russians of the period.

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The Bishop (short story)

"The Bishop" (translit) is a 1902 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the April 1902 issue of Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh.

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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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The Darling (short story)

"The Darling" (translit) is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.1, 1899, issue of Semya (Family) magazine, on January 3, in Moscow.

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The Idiot

The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

The Kingdom of God Is Within You (pre-reform Russian: Царство Божіе внутри васъ; post-reform Tsárstvo Bózhiye vnutrí vas) is a non-fiction book written by Leo Tolstoy.

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The Steppe (novella)

The Steppe (translit), subtitled The Story of a Journey, is a novella by Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

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Three Years

Three Years (translit) is an 1895 novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in the January and February 1895 issues of Russkaya Mysl.

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Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Вешние воды), is a novel by Ivan Turgenev that was first published in 1872.

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Virgin Soil

Virgin Soil («Новь») is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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War and Peace

War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; post-reform translit) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

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Yasnaya Polyana

Yasnaya Polyana (p, literally: "Bright Glade") is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Garnett

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