Ivan Turgenev

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born

November 09, 1818 in Oryol, Russian Federation

died

September 03, 1883

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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In Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

Turgenev was contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform.

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Books by Ivan Turgenev

Average rating: 3.81 · 17,458 ratings · 856 reviews · 227 distinct works

	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Jane Costlow (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 11,237 ratings — published 1862 — 185 editions	My rating:
	First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,404 ratings — published 1860 — 65 editions	My rating:
	Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 1852 — 88 editions	My rating:
	Mumu 3.49 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 1852 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Shapiro (Translator, Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1872 — 66 editions	My rating:
	On the Eve 3.83 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1860 — 55 editions	My rating:
	Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1856 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn 3.84 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1858 — 103 editions	My rating:
	Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev, David A. Patterson (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1850 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Virgin Soil 3.77 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1849 — 44 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

tags: inspirational

64 people liked it

“We sit in the mud my friend and reach for the stars”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

35 people liked it

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
― Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

28 people liked it

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What book would you like to read in October?

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

12 votes, 41.4%

Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Turgenev

6 votes, 20.7%

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5 votes, 17.2%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

3 votes, 10.3%

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

3 votes, 10.3%

29 total votes

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