Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. Rubin was Turgenev's first post Russian work. It tells the story on a man in his 20's torn between his unhappy life in Europe and his love of his barbaric homeland. Turgenev shows a real nostalgia for the 1840's in this novel.

Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. Turgenev wrote a famous obituary to his hero Gogol which caused him to be exiled for two years. During the 1850"s several Russian authors including Turgenev emigrated to Europe. Included in this collection are: Clara Militch, Phantoms, The Song of the Triumphant Love, The Dream and selected Poems in Prose. These selections are some of his final writings.

Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. Published in 1852 this collection of stories is also known as Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album. The stories are based on Turgenev's experiences hunting on this mother's estate. While on these tripe he learned about the abuse suffered by the Russian peasants and the injustice of the Russian system. These stories along with his epitaph to Gogol led to his house arrest. Stories in this work include: Khor and Kalinych:, Yermolay and the Miller's Wife:, Raspberry Water,...