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Book Sketches from a Hunter s Album  a Sportsman s Sketches

Download or read book Sketches from a Hunter s Album a Sportsman s Sketches written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally thought to be the work that led to the abolishment of serfdom in Russia, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album (A Sportsman's Sketches)" is a series of short stories, written in 1852, that gained Turgenev widespread recognition for his unique writing style. These stories were the result of Turgenev's observations while hunting all over Russia, particularly on his abusive mother's estate at Spasskoye. A definitive work of the Russian Realist tradition, this collection of sketches unveils the author's insights on the lives of everyday Russians, from landowners and their peasants, to bailiffs and mournful doctors, to unhappy wives and mothers. Turgenev captures their tragedies and triumphs, losses and love in a set of stories that condemned the behavior of the ruling class. Considered subversive writing, Turgenev was confined to his mother's estate, yet his "Sketches" opened the eyes of many people of his time, proving him not only an artist but also a social reformer whose abilities ultimately affected the lives of countless Russians.

Book Essential Turgenev

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1994-06-22
  • ISBN : 0810110857
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book Essential Turgenev written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenev's finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsman's Sketches, seven of Turgenev's most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the author's nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.

Book Sketches from a Hunter s Album

Download or read book Sketches from a Hunter s Album written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-08-30 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters - peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers - each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.

Book The Plays of Ivan S  Turgenev

Download or read book The Plays of Ivan S Turgenev written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poems in Prose

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  • Author : Ivan Turgenev
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2016-09-12
  • ISBN : 1326785656
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Poems in Prose written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was one the best-known Russian novelists of the 19th century. Among his books, "Fathers and Sons" (1862) stands out as a masterpiece. Turgenev's shorter fiction was equally popular. Written in the late 1870s and early 1880s, his "Poems in Prose" are regarded as a classical example of what is now known as flash fiction. The translation has been carefully edited, and the almost always omitted story, "Threshold", which is regarded as one of Turgenev's best, reinstated to its rightful place.

Book Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

Download or read book Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). Turgenev's works available in Penguin Classics are Fathers and Sons, First Love, Home of the Gentry, On the Eve, Rudin, Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Spring Torrents and Three Sketches from a Hunter's Album.

Book A Sportsman s Sketches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book A Sportsman s Sketches written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Torrents of Spring

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  • Author : Ivan Turgenev
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1775454177
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Torrents of Spring written by Ivan Turgenev and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get acquainted with the work of Russian literary master Ivan Turgenev in this rich, multifaceted tale of unrequited romantic love and self-discovery. The Torrents of Spring follows the coming-of-age of a young Russian aristocrat who is willing to give away everything he owns to pursue love. But before he can achieve his happily-ever-after, a sophisticated seductress steps in and induces him to stray from his single-minded goal. Will the young protagonist make the right decision? Read The Torrents of Spring to find out.

Book A Sportsman s Sketches Complete

Download or read book A Sportsman s Sketches Complete written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOR AND KALINITCH Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by the striking difference between the race of people in the province of Orel and the population of the province of Kaluga. The peasant of Orel is not tall, is bent in figure, sullen and suspicious in his looks; he lives in wretched little hovels of aspen-wood, labours as a serf in the fields, and engages in no kind of trading, is miserably fed, and wears slippers of bast: the rent-paying peasant of Kaluga lives in roomy cottages of pine-wood; he is tall, bold, and cheerful in his looks, neat and clean of countenance; he carries on a trade in butter and tar, and on holidays he wears boots. The village of the Orel province (we are speaking now of the eastern part of the province) is usually situated in the midst of ploughed fields, near a water-course which has been converted into a filthy pool. Except for a few of the ever-accommodating willows, and two or three gaunt birch-trees, you do not see a tree for a mile round; hut is huddled up against hut, their roofs covered with rotting thatch…. The villages of Kaluga, on the contrary, are generally surrounded by forest; the huts stand more freely, are more upright, and have boarded roofs; the gates fasten closely, the hedge is not broken down nor trailing about; there are no gaps to invite the visits of the passing pig…. And things are much better in the Kaluga province for the sportsman. In the Orel province the last of the woods and copses will have disappeared five years hence, and there is no trace of moorland left; in Kaluga, on the contrary, the moors extend over tens, the forest over hundreds of miles, and a splendid bird, the grouse, is still extant there; there are abundance of the friendly larger snipe, and the loud-clapping partridge cheers and startles the sportsman and his dog by its abrupt upward flight.

Book Home of the Gentry

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  • Author : Ivan Turgenev
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2007-12-06
  • ISBN : 0141935839
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Home of the Gentry written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas that have uprooted them from Russia, their 'home', but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land.

Book A Hunter s Road

Download or read book A Hunter s Road written by Jim Fergus and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.

Book Consequences of Consciousness

Download or read book Consequences of Consciousness written by Donna Tussing Orwin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.

Book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Download or read book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain written by George Saunders and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Book Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments

Download or read book Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments written by Иван Сергеевич Тургенев and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. This book was released on 1958 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English translation of the literary memoirs of the great Russian novelist. Includes an essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson.

Book A Sportsman s Sketches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ivšn Turg?nev
  • Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
  • Release : 2018-04-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book A Sportsman s Sketches written by Ivšn Turg?nev and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories based on Turgenevs personal experiences and observations during travel through Russia. Providing the glimpses of romance, tragedy and defeat, these sketches capture the life stories of farmers and landlords, doctors and officers, ignored wives and deprived mothers. These emotions are presented in a mesmerizing manner that keeps its readers affected till the end.

Book A Sportsman s Sketches

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  • Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book A Sportsman s Sketches written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sportsman s Sketches

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  • Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Publisher : Namaskar Book
  • Release : 2024-02-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book A Sportsman s Sketches written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape into the natural world with "A Sportsman's Sketches: Tales of Nature, Humanity, and the Outdoors" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Journey into the heart of the wilderness as Turgenev paints vivid portraits of nature's beauty and the human experience. Experience the immersive storytelling of Turgenev as he takes readers on a journey through the Russian countryside. Through rich prose and keen observation, Turgenev captures the essence of outdoor life and the profound connections between humanity and the natural world. But amidst the tales of nature and humanity lies a fundamental question: What lessons can we learn from the wilderness, and how does our connection to nature shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us? Are there timeless truths waiting to be discovered in the simplicity of outdoor life? Delve into the depths of Turgenev's sketches as he explores the intricacies of human nature against the backdrop of the Russian wilderness. With each story, readers are transported to a world where the line between humanity and nature blurs, revealing profound insights and stirring emotions. Are you ready to embark on a journey of discovery and reflection with "A Sportsman's Sketches"? Prepare to be captivated by Turgenev's lyrical prose and his deep reverence for the natural world. Engage with Turgenev's sketches as you immerse yourself in "A Sportsman's Sketches: Tales of Nature, Humanity, and the Outdoors." With each narrative, you'll gain new perspectives on the beauty of nature and the complexities of the human experience. Join the adventure into the wilderness. Let the tales of nature and humanity unfold! Don't miss your chance to experience the wonders of outdoor life through the eyes of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Purchase your copy of "A Sportsman's Sketches: Tales of Nature, Humanity, and the Outdoors" now and embark on a journey that will stir your soul and ignite your sense of wonder. ```