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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, Walter Scott, Schopenhauer, Georg ...more


Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич 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 reli ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.92 · 191,994 ratings · 12,606 reviews · 1,816 distinct works • Similar authors
Fathers and Sons
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First Love
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3.76 avg rating — 23,592 ratings — published 1860 — 1177 editions
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Mumu
3.78 avg rating — 10,876 ratings — published 1852 — 169 editions
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album
3.96 avg rating — 8,912 ratings — published 1852 — 207 editions
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Spring Torrents
3.95 avg rating — 5,629 ratings — published 1872 — 659 editions
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Home of the Gentry
3.92 avg rating — 5,434 ratings — published 1859 — 694 editions
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Rudin
3.78 avg rating — 4,558 ratings — published 1856 — 39 editions
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On the Eve
3.83 avg rating — 4,091 ratings — published 1860 — 284 editions
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Diary of a Superfluous Man
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Asya
3.96 avg rating — 3,701 ratings — published 1858 — 106 editions
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“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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Polls

June 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Othello by William Shakespeare, 1603, 314 pages
 
  44 votes, 14.4%

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848, 437 pages
 
  40 votes, 13.1%

 
  34 votes, 11.1%

 
  31 votes, 10.1%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages
 
  27 votes, 8.8%

 
  23 votes, 7.5%

 
  22 votes, 7.2%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 1890, 134 pages
 
  20 votes, 6.5%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages
 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  12 votes, 3.9%

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe, 1790, 256 pages
 
  12 votes, 3.9%

 
  2 votes, 0.7%

306 total votes
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