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A Contented Man by Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883), translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West..
Constance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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A young man goes skipping and bounding along a street in the capital. His movements are gay and alert; there is a sparkle in his eyes, a smirk on his lips, a pleasing flush on his beaming face.... He is all contentment and delight.

What has happened to him? Has he come in for a legacy? Has he been promoted? Is he hastening to meet his beloved? Or is it simply he has had a good breakfast, and the sense of health, the sense of well-fed prosperity, is at work in all his limbs? Surely they have not put on his neck thy lovely, eight-pointed cross, O Polish king, Stanislas?

No. He has hatched a scandal against a friend, has sedulously sown it abroad, has heard it, this same slander, from the lips of another friend, and—has himself believed it!

Oh, how contented! how kind indeed at this minute is this amiable, promising young man!

February 1878.
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Welcome to this week's poem, a prose offering by Ivan Turgenev.
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Thank you Algy. :thumbs:
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Thank you Ben, good reading, but the file is missing the 5 seconds of ending silence. Could you upload with the silence added? Thanks.
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Here's Mine at 2min 4sec:
https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/contentedman_turgenev_kla_128kb.mp3
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Thank you Bruce, Kerry, Gabriel and M. :thumbs:
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Thank you Lee Ann. :thumbs:
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Sorry about the wait, I didn't get a notification
https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/contentedman_turgenev_bd_128kb.mp3
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Thanks for the edit Ben, now PL OK.
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