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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
"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 ...
"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"
"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.
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, ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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