Essential Turgenev

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Northwestern University Press, 22.06.1994 - 884 Seiten
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.

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Letter to Bettina von Arnim 1840 or 1841
3
A Sportsmans Sketches
6
Letter to A A Kraevskii 1849
102
The Diary of a Superfluous Man
104
Letter to Louis and Pauline Viardot 1852
152
Letter to O A Turgeneva 1855
154
A Correspondence
156
Letter to E E Lambert 1856
184
Fathers and Sons
567
Letter to F M Dostoevsky 1862
747
Letter to K K Sluchevskii 1862
749
Letter to E E Lambert 1862
752
Enough
754
Letter to P V Annenkov 1868
765
Letter to L Pietsch 1868
767
A Strange History
769

Letter to L N Tolstoy 1856
186
Rudin
188
Letter to L N Tolstoy 1857
304
Letter to V P Botkin 1857
306
A Journey to Polesje
308
Letter to A N Apukhtin 1858
326
A Nest of Gentry
329
Letter to E E Lambert 1859
480
Letter to I A Goncharov 1859
482
Letter to E E Lambert 1859
484
First Love
486
Letter to K N Leontiev 1860
545
Hamlet and Don Quixote
547
Letter to M N Katkov 1861
565
The Execution of Troppmann
791
Letter to M A Miliutina 1875
812
Letter to V L Kign 1876
813
Autobiography
815
Letter to la P Polonskii 1877
818
The Dream
819
Letter to V P Gaevskii 1880
837
Speech Delivered at the Dedication of the Monument to A S Pushkin in Moscow
839
Letter to M G Savina 1880
850
The Song of Triumphant Love
852
Letter to L N Tolstoy 1882
872
Poems in Prose
873
Letter to L N Tolstoy 1883
884
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Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a novelist, poet and playwright. He was born to a wealthy family in Oryol in the Ukraine region of Russia. He attended St. Petersburg University (1834-37) and Berlin University (1838-41), completing his master's exam at St. Petersburg. His career at the Russian Civil Service began in 1841. He worded for the Ministry of Interior from 1843-1845. In the 1840's, Turgenev began writing poetry, criticism, and short stories under Nikolay Gogol's influence. A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) were short pieces written from the point of view of a nobleman who learns to appreciate the wisdom of the peasants who live on his family's estate. This brought him a month of detention and eighteen months of house arrest. From 1853-62, he wrote stories and novellas, which include the titles Rudin (1856), "Dvorianskoe Gnedo" (1859), Nakanune (1860) and Ottsy I Deti (1862). Turgenev left Russia, in 1856, because of the hostile reaction to Fathers and Sons (1862). Turgenev finally settled in Paris. He became a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1860 and Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford University in 1879. His last published work, Poems in Prose, was a collection of meditations and anecdotes. On September 3, 1883, Turgenev died in Bougival, near Paris.

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