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Constance Garnett

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black) (19 December 1861, Brighton, England – 17 December 1946, The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.

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He longed to forget himself altogether, to forget everything, and then to wake up and begin life anew.
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He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who “gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.”
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Most of Turgenev’s books I have read many times over, all of them I have read more than twice. For a number of years I read them again and again without much caring for other fiction
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