By Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus's Oldest residing accomplice Widow Tells All turned an immediate vintage upon its booklet. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, the most wonderful and loquacious heoines in American literature.
Lucy married on the flip of the final century, while she was once fifteen and her husband used to be fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was once a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy grew to become a "veteran of the veteran" with a different standpoint on Southern heritage and Southern manhood. Her tale encompasses every little thing from the tragic demise of a accomplice boy soldier to the feisty narrator's day-by-day battles within the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper. Oldest residing accomplice Widow Tells All is evidence that marvelous, emotional storytelling continues to be on the center of serious fiction.
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23 April 1876 . . your judgement of my novel is true, but not all of it—that is, it is all true, but what you have expressed does not express all that I meant. For instance, you speak of two kinds of people. I always feel that, and know it, but it is one of the true things that can be said. If I wanted to express in words all that I meant to 42 A Karenina Companion express by the novel, then I should have to write the same novel as I have written all over again. And if the short-sighted critics think that I wanted to describe only what I liked, how Oblonskii dines and what Karenina's shoulders are like, then they are mistaken.
In the original publication in the Russian Herald Tolstoi divided his text, particularly in Part I, into fewer chapters. 1. 1. 6. 7 M. S. (December 1887): 783-99, and often reprinted. 27. 14. 15. 10. 15. 13 See especially E. Heier, Religious Schism in the Russian Aristocracy 1860-1900: Radstockism and Pashkovism (The Hague, 1970). 4. " 16 According to Tolstoi's son, Sergei, although he is not sure that his father was present. 21. This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 3 Tolstoi about Anna Karenina In the course of time Tolstoi made a number of statements about his novel.
Taking a dose of opium suggests suicide to her: at first she is horrified by the idea; in the final novel she finds it more attractive. Originally she had gone to Obiralovka in order to solicit the aid of Vronskii's mother; later she goes in the hope of seeing Vronskii and effecting a reconciliation—neither motive for her journey is particularly conducive to suicide, so finally Tolstoi added recurrent notes of an irrational desire for revenge on Vronskii and a hypersensitivity that makes virtually everything disgust or at least irritate her.
