Turgenev Tales and Poems in Prose

by Ivan Turgenev, Flo Gibson

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First published January 1, 2004

About the author

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 religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.

Reviews

[Samuel Moss · Rating 3 out of 5]

In Russia, in the 1800s, if you were a young, intellectual nobleman, and you saw a woman one time you would fall helplessly in love and then the woman would die or run away and you would mull over your feelings for the rest of your life.

Life was hard.

[Janith Pathirage · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of well written novellas and short stories. Some stories , I enjoyed very much and some I hated. Three Encounters, Asya and Faust were my favorites. These three clearly stood out form the rest and reminded me so much of some of his best books like On the Eve and Fathers & Sons.