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Ivan Turgenev

Born

in Oryol, Russian Empire

November 09, 1818

Died

September 03, 1883

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Pushkin, Schiller, Bakunin, Goethe, Schopenhauer

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Тургенев) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turge ...more

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	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, George Reavy (Translator) , Jane Costlow (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 53,965 ratings — published 1862 — 570 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mumu 3.73 avg rating — 7,080 ratings — published 1852 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 6,249 ratings — published 1835 — 203 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 7,426 ratings — published 1856 — 251 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Torrents 3.92 avg rating — 3,042 ratings — published 1872 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 2,713 ratings — published 1859 — 219 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Eve 3.82 avg rating — 2,382 ratings — published 1860 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 2,000 ratings — published 1856 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,588 ratings — published 1877 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asya 3.96 avg rating — 1,537 ratings — published 1858 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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

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“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

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Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov

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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 votes, 20.0%

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

1 vote, 10.0%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

1 vote, 10.0%

Mother by Maxim Gorky

1 vote, 10.0%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

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