Master and Man and Other Stories

My 3 highlights

• Anna was still alive, but now she was so far from young that she no longer looked upon herself as such, which of course is highly significant for a woman. She had grown very plump (which is supposed to make a woman look younger), but deep wrinkles now lined that soft white corpulence.

• Suddenly the thought that he had slept through practically the whole of that day, which was now ending, depressed him deeply. ‘This day which is now past can never be recovered,’ he reflected.

• Oh dear, I'm already twenty-two and the only person ever to have fallen for me was that pock-faced Ivan Ipatych. Four years ago I was even prettier. But now my girlhood has passed without bringing joy to anyone. Oh, I'm so unlucky! I'm just a poor country girl!’