Edward Garnett: 6 books

This 1922 collection of acute literary essays includes pieces on Nietzsche, Ibsen, Conrad, Crane, Frost, and others.  The sensibility informing this volume may be inferred from the following, taken from Garnett's preface: "The publisher's reader knows what literary success signifies:  he has no need to cultivate his sense of irony."

The author of this 1914 installment in Constable's Modern Biographies series a felicitous choice, not only because of Garnett’s own literary sensibilities but because of the professional talents of his wife, Constance, the leading Russian translator of her day.  The result is an insightful, judicious appreciation of Tolstoy and his texts.

If any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views, clearly and finely as they are conceived and expanded. He will find it best...

A writer, Mr. Robert Lynd, has said: “It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. It is as though most of us were monotheists in our devotion to authors, and could not endure to see any respect paid to the images of the rivals of the gods...

AMARYLLIS found the first daffodil flowering by the damask rose, and immediately ran to call her father to come and see it.

This 1917 biography of the great Russian novelist, author of such classic works as Fathers and Sons and On the Eve, features a foreword by Joseph Conrad and presents a concise yet insightful overview of Turgenev's life and work.