Seul et triste, Sanine voit approcher la vieillesse et se souvient. Il avait vingt ans quand il fit etape a Francfort, au retour d'un voyage en Europe. La premiere fois qu'il vit Gemma, dans la confiserie de sa mere, il en tomba follement amoureux. Gemma est belle, brune, paree de toutes les vertus et, tres vite, partage son inclination. Pour elle, Sanine est pret a tout: il se bat en duel, il l'arrache a son fiance, un premier commis infatue de lui-meme, obtient sa main et decide de vendre ses terres pour assurer a sa belle une vie confortable.

On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. In his essay -When Will the Real Day Come?-, Nikolay Dobrolyubov analyzed On the Eve through a political lens that Turgenev disagreed with, offending the author. The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a hypochondriac mother and an idle father, a retired guards lieutenant with a mistress.

The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention to the cruelties of serfdom, and received praise for its brutal portrayal of this institution in Russian society. Originally published in 1854, Mumu was written by Turgenev while he was in custody for writing an obituary for fellow writer Nikolai Gogol. From a good family, Turgenev was well-read, and had spent extensive time in the West (he was fluent in German, French, and English). His primary concern, and the main...

Roudine est un roman d'Ivan Tourgueniev ecrit en 1855 dans son domaine de Spasskoie-Loutovinovo et paru dans la revue Le Contemporain en 1856. A la campagne, des hobereaux se reunissent chez une dame moscovite. Il y a la un frere et une soeur, plus quelques energumenes un peu fantaisistes. Arrive le heros, Roudine, qui subjugue tout le monde, sauf un homme qui l'a tres bien connu pendant leur jeunesse. Le heros tombe amoureux de la fille de son hote au grand desespoir du frere de celle-ci. La jeune fille, qui est beaucoup moins sotte que l'on ne pense, est prete a le suivre par amour, mais il...

Home of the Gentry, also translated as A Nest of the Gentlefolk, is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969. The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev.

Je voulus discerner les traits de la femme mysterieuse, mais un tremblement involontaire me parcourut tout entier et une bouffee d'air glace me frappa au visage. Je n'etais plus couche, mais assis sur mon seant, et, a l'endroit ou j'avais cru apercevoir la vision, il n'y avait plus qu'une longue raie de lumiere blanche, projetee par la lune.

Rudin is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev started to work on it in 1855, and it was first published in the literary magazine -Sovremennik- in 1856; several changes were made by Turgenev in subsequent editions. It is perhaps the least known of Turgenev's novels. Rudin was the first of Turgenev's novels, but already in this work the topic of the superfluous man and his inability to act (which became a major theme of Turgenev's literary work) was explored.

Ivan Turgenev (Orel, 9 novembre 1818 - Bougival, 3 settembre 1883) e stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo russo. La data di nascita e il 28 ottobre, secondo il calendario giuliano in vigore all'epoca. Il suo romanzo Padri e figli e considerato uno dei capolavori della narrativa del XIX secolo per la sua analisi della struttura familiare russa della sua epoca e dei rapporti interpersonali al suo interno.

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) stands as one of Russia's most influential authors. Along with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, he helped shape the Russian novel and consequently the Russian identity. Born into wealth, Turgenev had a compelling vision of nobility and the perils of serfdom. His profound novels and short stories made him internationally revered. In this collection of short stories, Turgenev characterizes the -superfluous man--an archetype which becomes central to the rest of his work and Russian literature at large.

Re Lear della steppa e un racconto di Ivan Sergeevic Turgenev pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1870. Dmitrij Semenovic racconta a un gruppo di amici una vicenda, risalente a quando il narratore aveva 15 anni di eta, riguardante un amico di famiglia le cui vicende gli ricordano quelle del protagonista del dramma scespiriano Re Lear, il sovrano che aveva abdicato e diviso il regno fra le sue figlie.