Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to:
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
A scorpion is a predatory arthropod animal.
A spy is a person engaged in espionage, obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential.
Tyre most often refers to:
First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy.
Severina may refer to:
Overkill may refer to:
The superfluous man is an 1840s and 1850s Russian literary concept derived from the Byronic hero. It refers to a man, perhaps talented and capable, who does not fit into social norms. In most cases, this person is born into wealth and privilege. Typical characteristics are disregard for social values, cynicism, and existential boredom; typical behaviors are gambling, drinking, romantic intrigues and duels. He is often unmindful, indifferent or unempathetic with society's issues and can carelessly distress others with his actions, despite his position of power. He will often use his power for his own comfort and security and will have very little interest in being charitable or using it for the greater good.
Carmen is an 1875 opera by Georges Bizet.
Subterranean(s) or The Subterranean(s) may refer to:
An inside job is a crime committed by a person in a position of trust, or with the help of someone either employed by the victim or entrusted with access to the victim's affairs or premises.
Womanizer may refer to:
Third wheel, a term for someone who is superfluous, may refer to:
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.
Beast most often refers to:
Prisoner of the Caucasus may refer to:
Orlov or Orlova is a Russian surname derived from the noun орёл "eagle". It is shared by the following people:
The Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man, Tchulkaturin, who, though only 31 years old, is dying of an unspecified illness and has only a few days left to live as he recounts incidents of his life. The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man. It was first published in 1850 in the Saint Petersburg literary magazine Otechestvennye Zapiski.
Meliton is a novella by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin. Dated as "1900-1930" in The Complete Bunin, it was first published in the 1901 No.7 (July) issue of Saint Petersburg magazine Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, originally under the title "Skete" (Скит). While working upon the Primal Love compilation, Bunin changed the story's title into "Meliton". In its final version the novella appeared in the July 6, 1930, No.3392 issue of the Paris-based Poslednye Novosti newspaper.
A Dreary Story is an 1889 novella by Anton Chekhov, subtitled "From the Notebooks of an Old Man". Influenced by the death of Chekhov's brother Nikolay from tuberculosis, it has been described as one of Chekhov's most enduring works, and as "a penetrating study into the mind of an elderly and dying professor of medicine".