BOOKS by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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1	Fathers & Sons more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist Considered by many to be Turgenev's best novel, FATHERS AND SONS is an unsentimental depiction of the conflict between the radical young and their conservative elders. The hostile reception of this controversial story led Turgenev to leave Russia permanently and settle in Western Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Twenty Years at Hull House more books like this by Jane Addams add to wishlist Jane Addams's memoir of her experience running a settlement house on Chicago's West Side includes portraits of people in need and is a model for community service. Addams firmly believed that education and social activity were essential aspects of any program to turn lives around. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	On the eve more books like this by Ivan Turgenev add to wishlist Turgenev's third novel, published in 1860, is a tragic love story in which Pavel Shubin, a delicate artist, and Dimitry Insarov, a Bulgarian revolutionary, are both drawn toward Elena, the novel's impulsive and tenderhearted heroine. Because she identifies with his cause, she ultimately chooses Insarov. On their trip back to Bulgaria, however, he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Sportsman's Notebook more books like this by Ivan Turgenev add to wishlist These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $10.18! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Home of the Gentry more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	First Love and Other Stories more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) add to wishlist In "First Love," one of Turgenev's most celebrated works, Vladimir Petrovich, a middle-aged bachelor, is persuaded to write an account of his first love for a small group of friends who have been entertaining one another with romantic recollections. Vladimir's story takes place when he is 16 and living with his parents in their summer home outside ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Literary reminiscences and autobiographical fragments more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these LITERARY REMINISCENCES. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. He offers, as well, brilliant studies of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.65! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00!
9	Spring Torrents more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Leonard Shapiro (Introduction by) add to wishlist Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
10	Turgenev's letters more books like this by Ivan Turgenev add to wishlist Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of his adult life in Western Europe and started to write letters, not just to keep his friends informed of his progress, but 'in order to receive replies'. An entertaining and accomplished correspondent, he rarely ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $93.37! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Fortune's Fool by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Tony Nourmand (Editor), Graham Marsh (Editor) add to wishlist "Fortune's Fool" had its Broadway premiere a century and a half after it was written (1848) and proceeded to win two Tony Awards for the highly acclaimed performances of its stars, Alan Bates and Frank Langella, as well as a Tony nomination for best play. Set in the Russian countryside of grand houses and serfs, the play depicts the tragicomic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	Torrents of Spring more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist TORRENTS OF SPRING is Turgenev's romantic tale of Dimitri Sanin, a young Russian who falls in love with a seductive Italian girl named Gemma while traveling in Europe. Passionate and impetuous, he sells his estates in order to start a new life with Gemma, but his youthful vulnerability makes him prey to a darker, destructive passion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Smoke more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist "The profound disillusion following the failure of the Revolutionary movement of 1848 swept over the intellectuals of Europe. The restless futility, self-searching, flabbiness of will so native to this type are incarnate in one of Turgenev's greatest characters, Rudin." -- from John Reed's 1919 Introduction to "Smoke" see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.56! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Oxford World's Classics more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Editor) add to wishlist Considered by many to be Turgenev's best novel, FATHERS AND SONS is an unsentimental depiction of the conflict between the radical young and their conservative elders. The hostile reception of this controversial story led Turgenev to leave Russia permanently and settle in Western Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.16! \| first editions
15	Fathers and Sons more books like this by Constance Garnett (Translator), Raymond R. Canon (Designed by), Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist Considered by many to be Turgenev's best novel, FATHERS AND SONS is an unsentimental depiction of the conflict between the radical young and their conservative elders. The hostile reception of this controversial story led Turgenev to leave Russia permanently and settle in Western Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.97!
16 view cover	Diary of a Superfluous Man more books like this by Ivan Turgenev add to wishlist A picture of 19th-century Russian society in which Turgenev created one of the first literary portraits of the alientated man. Turgenev once said that there was a great deal of himself in the unsuccessful lovers who apper in his fiction. This failure is the central fact for the protagonist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.53! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	First love, and other tales more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.77! \| SVS
18 view cover	Fathers & Children more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist Considered by many to be Turgenev's best novel, FATHERS AND SONS is an unsentimental depiction of the conflict between the radical young and their conservative elders. The hostile reception of this controversial story led Turgenev to leave Russia permanently and settle in Western Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.09! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Virgin soil more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist "Virgin Soil" is Turgenev's last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism, and the futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist "In my opinion ...every love, happy as well as unhappy, is real disaster when you give yourself over to it entirely." This heart-felt sentiment expressed by Turgenev's unfortunate character, Rakitin, sums up the central predicament of this, Turgenev's most celebrated play, completed in 1850 during the period of his extensive travels abroad. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
21 view cover	Essential Turgenev more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $11.60! new only from $32.95! \| first editions
22	Sketches from a hunter's album more books like this by I. S. Turgenev add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.82! \| SVS
23 view cover	Faust by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Hugh Aplin (Translator), Simon Callow (Foreword by) add to wishlist Turgenev's lyrical tale suggests that with the loss of love comes a sense of resignation - and the conviction that the essence of life lies in self-denial. In a series of letters to a friend the narrator relates how he manages to convince a married woman, who till now has been shielded by her late mother from the powerful effects of poetry and ... see all copies from $5.06! new only from $6.55! \| SVS
24 view cover	Turgenev: Plays more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev add to wishlist This selection not only reveals the extent of Turgenev's achievement as a dramatist, but sheds an interesting light on the novels that followed. Includes: A Month in the Country, Stony Broke, One of the Family, Lunch at His Excellency's, A Provincial Day, and The Bachelor. see all copies from $9.31! new only from $21.49! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Children more books like this by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) add to wishlist 1920. Russian author, deemed the foremost stylist in Russian literature, Turgenev's novels, poems and plays are characterized by elegant craftsmanship, lucidity and a liberal, balanced point of view. Considered his masterpiece, in Fathers and Sons, Bazarov, the hero of the novel, is an idealistic young radical, a commoner and a university student, ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $24.19! \| SVS

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