Sketches from a Hunter's Album (a Sportsman's Sketches)
Sketches from a Hunter's Album (a Sportsman's Sketches)

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781420935110

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Generally thought to be the work that led to the abolishment of serfdom in Russia, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album (A Sportsman's Sketches)" is a series of short stories, written in 1852, that gained Turgenev widespread recognition for his unique writing style. These stories were the result of Turgenev's observations while hunting all over Russia, particularly on his abusive mother's estate at Spasskoye. A definitive work of the Russian Realist tradition, this collection of sketches unveils the author's insights on the lives of everyday Russians, from landowners and their peasants, to bailiffs and mournful doctors, to unhappy wives and mothers. Turgenev captures their tragedies and triumphs, losses and love in a set of stories that condemned the behavior of the ruling class. Considered subversive writing, Turgenev was confined to his mother's estate, yet his "Sketches" opened the eyes of many people of his time, proving him not only an artist but also a social reformer whose abilities ultimately affected the lives of countless Russians.

Essential Turgenev
Essential Turgenev

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1994-06-22

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 0810110857

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The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenev's finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsman's Sketches, seven of Turgenev's most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the author's nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.

The Diary Of A Superfluous Man and Other Stories
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man and Other Stories

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: JA

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 2291017586

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Includes: The Diary of a Superfluous Man, A Tour in the Forest, Yakov Pasinkov, Andrei Kolosov, and A Correspendence. The Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has 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.

Home of the Gentry
Home of the Gentry

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-12-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0141935839

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On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas that have uprooted them from Russia, their 'home', but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land.

Poems in Prose
Poems in Prose

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1326785656

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Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was one the best-known Russian novelists of the 19th century. Among his books, "Fathers and Sons" (1862) stands out as a masterpiece. Turgenev's shorter fiction was equally popular. Written in the late 1870s and early 1880s, his "Poems in Prose" are regarded as a classical example of what is now known as flash fiction. The translation has been carefully edited, and the almost always omitted story, "Threshold", which is regarded as one of Turgenev's best, reinstated to its rightful place.

The Plays of Ivan S. Turgenev
The Plays of Ivan S. Turgenev

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1434454770

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Included: "Carelessness," "Broke," "Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks," "The Family Charge," and "The Bachelor." Translated by M.S. Mandell. Introduction by William Lyon Phelps.

The Novels of Ivan Turgenev
The Novels of Ivan Turgenev

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781297022807

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A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781406570106

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a great Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of major works of 19th-century fiction. After the standard schooling for a child of a gentleman's family, He studied for one year at the University of Moscow and then moved to the University of St Petersburg, focusing on the classics, Russian literature and philology. Turgenev was impressed with German Central-European society, and believed that Russia could best improve itself by imitating the West. Like many of his educated contemporaries, he was particularly opposed to serfdom. He first made his name with A Sportsman's Sketches, also known as Sketches From a Hunter's Album; or, Notes of a Hunter. He wrote several short novels like The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Faust, and The Lull. In them Turgenev expressed the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. Amongst his other works are Liza: A Nest of Nobles, The Jew and Other Stories, On the Eve, A Reckless Character and Other Stories, The Torrents of Spring, and The Rendezvous.