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Ivan Turgenev

Born

in Oryol, Oryol Governorate, 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, Turg ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 105,134 ratings · 4,163 reviews · 920 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, George Reavy (Translator) , Jane Costlow (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 56,631 ratings — published 1862 — 637 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 — 7,416 ratings — published 1852 — 53 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 — 6,599 ratings — published 1835 — 217 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 — 7,865 ratings — published 1856 — 271 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 3.93 avg rating — 3,165 ratings — published 1872 — 183 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 — 2,880 ratings — published 1859 — 232 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 — 2,533 ratings — published 1860 — 158 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) 3.73 avg rating — 2,129 ratings — published 1856 — 146 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) 3.82 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 1877 — 140 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 3.97 avg rating — 1,662 ratings — published 1858 — 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

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ايفان تورغينيف : المؤلفات المختارة فى 5 مجلدات (1 book)
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ايفان تورغينيف : المؤلفات المختارة فى 5 مجلدات (1 book)
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Ivan Turgenev,

إيفان تورغينيف

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings

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 S. Turgenev, Rudin

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June 2018 Old School Poll

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages

103 votes, 30.3%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

81 votes, 23.8%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

64 votes, 18.8%

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 400 BC, 160 pages

61 votes, 17.9%

The Golden Ass by Apuleius 158 AD, 256 pages

31 votes, 9.1%

340 total votes

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