Found 174 results for "Peasants in fiction"
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
by Isaac Asimov
The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years.
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
"Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us"
by Лев Толстой
Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.
by Jung Chang
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...
by Alessandro Manzoni
"ONE arm of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, which cut it up into a series of ...
by Eric Berne
OBSERVATION of spontaneous social activity, most productively carried out in certain kinds of psychotherapy groups, reve...
by Italo Calvino
The wind, coming to the city from far away, brings it unusual gifts, noticed by only a few sensitive souls, such as hay-...
by Kamala Markandaya
SOMETIMES at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil togeth...
by Mary Renault
LEST ANYONE should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line i...
by Jacqueline Carey
Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and s...
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by th...
by Alexandre Dumas
ON the borders of Picardy and the province of Soissons, and on that part of the national territory which, under the name...