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Ivan Turgenev
First published in 1852, Sketches from a Hunter’s Album is a loose series of lyrical stories of rural life under serfdom. This expanded edition includes all Turgenev’s other short stories.
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Ivan Turgenev,Richard Freeborn
Lavretsky returns to his estate, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, and finds love again - only to lose it. This book captures the sense of loss and of…
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A social novel that is a sort of introduction to those that follow, because it refers to the epoch anterior to that when the social and political movements began.
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Turgenev’s masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862.
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…
Richard Freeborn
Professor Freeborn’s book is an attempt to identify and define the evolution of a particular kind of novel in Russian and Soviet literature: the revolutionary novel. This genre is a…
Ivan Goncharov
Goncharov’s masterpiece is not just ingenious social satire, but also a sharp criticism of 19th century Russian society.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Fathers and Sons was the most closely studied of Turgenev’s works in the Soviet high school curriculum. An inadvertent political agenda favorite, the story juxtaposes two generations.
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I.A. Goncharov
Goncharov’s gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional…
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A fresh interpretation of Turgenev’s comedy about the calamitous effects of love.