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Twenty Years at Hull House
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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.
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On the eve
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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 ...
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Virgin soil
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"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.
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Sportsman's Notebook
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Introduction by Ivan Turgenev; Translation by charles and Natasha Hepburn
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Torrents of Spring
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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.
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First love
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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 of Moscow. Their neighbors are the Princess Zasyekin and ...
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator)
Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these Sketches appeared in book form in 1852 they were read as inflammatory polemic and led to his arrest and confinement at ...
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Rudin
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I. S. Turgenev
Turgenev's first novel, published in 1856, is the portrait of a type of intellectual and enthusiastic idealist. He ultimately proves himself to be a "superfluous man"--a brilliant and charismatic failure in his dealings with love, money, and friends.
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A month in the country
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Turgenev's "comedy in five acts" was written in 1850. It depicts a love triangle straddling social and class barriers. Natalia is the bored wife residing at her husband's country estate who falls in love with her son's tutor. Vera, Natalia's ward, also falls for him and this rivalry results in the tutor being sent away. In the course of its ...
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Smoke
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"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"
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First Love and Other Stories
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Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator)
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 ...
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Fathers & Children
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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.
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A house of gentlefolk
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
This is the quintessential Turgenev novel of fading Russian nobility set against the backdrop of an era on the brink of the revolution. Just as he has committed himself to marry an innocent woman, Lavretsky is faced with a fallen woman from his past. What follows is heartbreak, in classic Russian style.
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Literary reminiscences and autobiographical fragments
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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 ...
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Spring Torrents
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Leonard Shapiro (Translator)
SPRING TORRENTS 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.
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A hunter's sketches
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Great Russian author Turgenev(1818-1883) was an avid hunter and nature lover and used his own experiences in the woods of his native Russia to pen this work which established his reputation as a foremost writer of his time.
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Diary of a Superfluous Man
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Ivan Turgenev
In Turgenev's classic tale, a dying man looks back upon his life and his lovein a gently fading series of lyrical entries.
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Turgenev's letters
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Ivan Turgenev
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 ...
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Home of the Gentry
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator)
When Lavsetsky returns to his estate in rural Russia it is as a man who has been defeated by a failed marriage. His hopes rise when he finds love in this country setting, but again his hopes are crushed. Turgenev's themes are the extent to which happiness is doomed and the importance of a certain generation of privileged Russians being reconciled ...
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A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts
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Turgenev's "comedy in five acts" was written in 1850. It depicts a love triangle straddling social and class barriers. Natalia is the bored wife residing at her husband's country estate who falls in love with her son's tutor. Vera, Natalia's ward, also falls for him and this rivalry results in the tutor being sent away. In the course of its ...
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A Sportsman's Sketches
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
On such days all the colours are softened, bright but not glaring; everything is suffused with a kind of touching tenderness. On such days the heat is sometimes very great; often it is even 'steaming' on the slopes of the fields, but a wind dispels this growing sultriness, and whirling eddies of dust--sure sign of settled, fine weather--move along ...
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Fortune's Fool
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Tony Nourmand (Editor), Graham Marsh (Editor)
"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 ...
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The best known works of Ivan Turgenev; including Fathers and sons, Smoke and nine short stories
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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First love, and other tales
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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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 ...
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Sketches from a hunter's album
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