Deux générations by graf Leo Tolstoy
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"Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"]) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy published in 1856, and translated into English by Nathan Haskell Dole. This is a novel in which one generation struggles against an earlier generation, or Tolstoy's generation is in struggle against that of his father. Tolstoy translator Aylmer Maude describes the text as a "a rollicking tale with flashes of humor resembling Charles Lever's." Russian and Soviet literary scholar Boris
Eikhenbaum has suggested that the introduction to Two Hussars was actually intended to be in The Decembrists, the incomplete novel that was supposed to be the following installment of War and Peace. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)
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| Author | Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Halpérine-Kaminsky, E. (Ely), 1858-1936 |
| Uniform Title | Dva gusara. French |
| Title | Deux générations |
| Edition | Deuxième édition. |
| Original Publication | Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1886. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Hussars |
| Note | Translation of Два гусара (Dva gusara). |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Summary | "Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"]) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy published in 1856, and translated into English by Nathan Haskell Dole. This is a novel in which one generation struggles against an earlier generation, or Tolstoy's generation is in struggle against that of his father. Tolstoy translator Aylmer Maude describes the text as a "a rollicking tale with flashes of humor resembling Charles Lever's." Russian and Soviet literary scholar Boris Eikhenbaum has suggested that the introduction to Two Hussars was actually intended to be in The Decembrists, the incomplete novel that was supposed to be the following installment of War and Peace. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
| Subject | Country life -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into French |
| Subject | Russia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Hussars -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78069 |
| Release Date | Feb 28, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 6268 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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