A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O-- (it was in the year 1842) two women were [...]
The doctor has just left me. At last I have got at something definite For all his cunning, he had to speak out at last. Yes, I am soon, very soon, to die. The frozen rivers will break up, and with the last snow I shall, most likely, swim away ... whither? God knows To the ocean too. Well, well, si[...]
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."--"The New Yorker"One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and [...]
"Fathers and Sons," by Ivan Turgenev, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable feat[...]
Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience. In Russia works such as his "A Hunter's Notes" and "Fathers and Sons, " were pivotal in transforming the Russian social landscape. [...]
This eBook features the unabridged text of 'Smoke by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)' from the bestselling edition of 'The Collected Works of Ivan Turgenev'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that [...]
This eBook features the unabridged text of 'Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)' from the bestselling edition of 'The Collected Works of Ivan Turgenev'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publi[...]
Includes the plays; A Month in the Country, Stony Broke, One of the Family, The Bachelor, Lunch at His Excellency's and A Provincial Lady. A Month in the Country is Turgenev's acknowledged masterpiece and clearly influenced the plays of Chekhov, written almost half a century later. His shorter play[...]
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian au[...]
Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov.[...]
These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.[...]
"Dvorjanskoegnezdo" - "khronikautrachennoj zhizni" XIX veka pod genialnym i elegicheskim perom Turgeneva.Istorija ljubvi, nenavisti i revnosti, istorija somnenij i intellektualnykh iskanij na fone "pomeschichej idillii".Odin iz samykh izyskannykh i prostykh romanov Turgeneva. Roman, kotoryj stal nas[...]