Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes." About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,...
Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous M...
Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of his adult life in Western Europe and started to write letters, not just to keep his friends informed of his progress, but 'in order to receive replies'. An entertaining and accomplished correspondent, he rarely objected to publication of his letters, which were written with that possibility in mind. This selection of full letters spans more than fifty years, from 1831 until just before Turgenev's death in September 1883. Turgenev enjoyed conversations by post,...
Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of his adult life in ...
Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Saltykov, Ivan Turgenev, Anthony Briggs
This newly translated collection of short stories brings together tales from three giants in Russian literature: Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Saltykov (Shchedrin) and Ivan Turgenev. These touching narratives come together to make a truly original and unique selection.
This newly translated collection of short stories brings together tales from three giants in Russian literature: Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Saltykov (Shch...
Alesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers ina lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relationsIn a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera's eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but also a world of unbridled feelings and tempestuous passions, which...
Alesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers ina lucid translation, is presented with "Ya...
On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles - unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil.
On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops ov...
Turgenev s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to go to the people by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside s locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin.
Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev s most ambitious and elaborate work,...
Turgenev s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to go to the people by working on the lan...
Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant critique of the established order.
Turgenev's masterpiece investigates the growing nihilist movement of mid-nineteenth-century Russia - a theme which was to influence Dostoevsky and many other European writers - in a universal and often hilarious story of generational conflict and the...
Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - t...
Coming back to the nest of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love. News of Varvara's death arrive from France, offering Lavretsky the prospect of a new life, but a cruel twist threatens to shatter his dreams and forces him to re-evaluate his plans.
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Coming back to the nest of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on...
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. Turgenevs 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 Turgenevs best, reinstated to its rightful place.
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 maste...
Ivan Turgenev's On the Eve, here presented in a brand new translation, is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Russian literature and an essential document of the upheaval that dominated Russian society in the years prior to the Crimean War.
Ivan Turgenev's On the Eve, here presented in a brand new translation, is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Russian literature and an essen...
