<p>Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Avril Pyman</p>

Fathers and Children

Literature & Fiction

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Classics

Harcourt College Pub.

READING, today, this story, which really closed the novelist's great period, the reader finds it full of interest as a problem-novel, aside from that interest of passionate patriotism which, a dozen years ago and more, virtually expatriated its author, and made the heart of "young Russia" beat high with hope. The story deals with the formation of the Nihilist party—that formation so secret and so spontaneous—shows, through the dramatic action of the characters, how hopeless yet how inevitable was this movement, and reveals the pitiless insistence of those national questions that cannot be answered for generations. Both hero and heroine, born of the educated classes, suffer death and disaster in their effort to gain one step forward for the masses. Alexai is a weaker Hamlet. Mariana stands for Liberty herself. All the other characters are living and breathing existences—the dilettante patriot and society man, the practical man of affairs who would win a way for the complaining millions were a way possible, the dull and hopeless peasants, the beautiful, cruel, aristocratic women, the enthusiasts for freedom in both sexes, the informers, the officials, the judges—while over the bitter winter and the happy summer stretched the awful shadows of the prison and of Siberia. A book so profoundly felt will not allow itself to be forgotten.

Virgin Soil

Ivan Aivazovsky

R. Townsend

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A poignant story of a deaf-mute peasant who gets a job on an estate in Moscow. Wonderful storytelling and great portrayal of the main character. Even though it's only a short story, there is a wealth of social issues presented in it that plagued life in Russia at the time. by Mag

Mumu

Diary Of A Superfluous Man And Other Stories

Fathers and Sons

When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.

The Torrents of Spring is a novel written by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. It is widely held as one Turgenev's greatest novels as well as being highly autobiographical in nature.

Torrents of Spring

Constance Black Garnett

This challenging novel contrasts the two forms of love that the Russian Sanin is confronted with - his beloved Gemma and the 'free' woman, Maria Nikolaevna. Maria warns Sanin that he will have to be able to forget as she diverts him from Gemma for her own pleasure - the frenzy of physical love. For Turgenev this was clearly not an easy matter - he wanted the purity of untarnished love - apparently what the French call 'amities amoureuses'; erotic but not genital. But Sanin is a man - how can he resist the passion when the opportunity arises, the passion that all of nature calls to action? Having been sullied by his actions - in his own eyes - he flees his Gemma, fails to forget, and slips into an unsatisfactory existence. But Turgenev is kind to us - and Sanin, because at the end of the novel he allows Sanin to make contact again with Gemma (then living in America) and to be comforted by her mature forgiveness and learn that her life has been good despite the disaster of Sanin's abandonment. Perhaps the hardest of all human experiences is just not knowing .....

A Sportsman's Sketches; also called The Hunting Sketchesand Sketches from a Hunter's Album, is a 1852 compellation of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. This, his first  literary effort, garnered him some notoriety. He wrote this anthology of short stories in light of his own perceptions while hunting at his mother's Spasskoye estate, where he learned of the unfair plights of the peasants and the shameful acts of the Russian monarchy that controlled them.  Also, the continuous rancor by Turgenev's own mother, positively affected this work. The stories were initially distributed separately in The Contemporary before showing up in 1852 in book form. He was about to quit writing when his first story, "Khor and Kalinich", was generally welcomed. This work is a piece of the Russian realist convention in that the storyteller is normally an uncommitted onlooker of the general population which he interacts with throughout the story. This work in general, really caused Turgenev to be imprisoned at this mother's home, and also another reason is his some epitaph to Nikolai Gogol, while at Spasskoye.  On the other hand, it seems likely that this collection of stories, due to their popularity, helped start the end of serfdom in Russia.

Sportsman's Sketches

<p>Moumou: L'histoire de Gérasime, le géant muet. et de son petit chien blanc moucheté de noir Moumou. - L'Auberge de Grand Chemin: L'histoire de l'aubergiste Akim Sémionov, serf d'une dame du voisingage. Un certain Nahum Ivanov, qui appartient à la classe des artisans, vole tout le bien d'Akim. Il prend sa femme, puis son argent en enfin son auberge. Quant à Akim, il chemine toujours et Dieu seul peut savoir quand prendra fin sa vie errante. - Un roi Lear des steppes: L'histoire d'ue Martin Pétrovitch Kharlov, un homme d'une taille gigantesque. Le récit captivant d'un être exceptionnel.</p>

Scènes de la vie rustique (French Edition)

Literary

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Fathers and Children

Virgin Soil

Mumu

Diary Of A Superfluous Man And Other Stories

Fathers and Sons

Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring

Sportsman's Sketches

Scènes de la vie rustique (French Edition)