When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each [...]
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ...you promised me ...you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge[...]
Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatened the state. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the Russian by Peter Carson, with an introduction by [...]
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. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the energetic, cynical, and self-assured 'nihilist' who repudiates the romanticism of his elders, shook Ru[...]
Turgenev's tragic masterpiece in which he confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.[...]
This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.
This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works [...]
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[...]
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.[...]
Nyoversættelse af Ivan Turgenjevs klassiker om forholdet mellem konservative fædre og radikale sønner. Om den nihilistiske læge Bazarov, der afskyr enhver form for romantik, men alligevel forelsker sig fatalt i en smuk overklasseenke. Og om hans ven og discipel Kirsanovc, der trods dumhe[...]
Nikolai Gogolin Muotokuva, Ivan Turgenevin Tarpeettoman ihmisen päiväkirja ja Fedor Dostojevskin Kellariloukko - kolme unohtumatonta venäläisen kirjallisuuden klassikkoa kaivattuna uusintapainoksena. Turgenev oli paitsi yhteiskunnallisesti valveutunut realismin kehittäjä myös hieno luonnonkuv[...]
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors an[...]
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarit[...]
Turgenev's most celebrated story, considered one of the great classics of world literature, examines the conflict of generations and attitudes in mid-19th century Russia, as distant precursors of the revolution rumble through the rural landscape. When Arkady Kirasanov returns home from college, he b[...]
Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of [...]
Turgenev's most celebrated story, considered one of the great classics of world literature, examines the conflict of generations and attitudes in mid-19th century Russia, as distant precursors of the revolution rumble through the rural landscape. When Arkady Kirasanov returns home from college, he b[...]