Selected works of Ivan Turgenev from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works FATHERS AND CHILDREN THE TORRENTS OF SPRING RUDIN ON THE EVE A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK SMOKE A LEAR OF THE STEPPES ACIA FAUST THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN A TOUR IN THE FOREST YAKOV PASINKOV ANDREI KOLOSOV A CORRESPONDENCE CLARA MILITCH PHANTOMS THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE THE DREAM POEMS IN PROSE A SPORTSMAN'S SKETCHES

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First English translation of the literary memoirs of the great Russian novelist. Includes an essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson.

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.

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.

The Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright, Ivan Turgenev is celebrated for the short story collection 'A Sportsman's Sketches', a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel 'Fathers and Sons', now regarded as one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Turgenev 's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) Features: * Concise introductions to the major works * All 7 novels, each with their own contents table * Almost ALL of the short stories and novellas, with excellent formatting * Almost ALL of Turgenev's plays - discover 8 rare plays - first time in digital print! * Many images relating to Turgenev's life and works * Special criticism section, with BONUS texts by writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, examining Turgenev's work * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Includes Edward Garnett's seminal biography - explore Turgenev's artistic life! CONTENTS: The Novels Rudin (1857) A House of Gentlefolk (1859) On the Eve (1860) Fathers and Sons (1862) Smoke (1867) Torrents of Spring (1872) Virgin Soil (1877) The Novellas The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) Yakov Pasinkov (1855) Faust (1855) Acia (1858) First Love (1860) Phantoms (1866) An Unhappy Girl (1868) A Lear of the Steppes (1870) The Dream (1877) The Song of Triumphant Love (1881) Clara Militch (1883) The Short Stories A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Plays A Poor Gentleman (1841) Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks (1847) A Month in the Country (1850) A Provincial Lady (1851) Careless (1852) Broke (1852) The Family Charge (1862) The Bachelor (1862) The Criticism Ivan Turgénieff by Henry James Turgenev: Library of the World’s Best Literature by Henry James Turgenieff by Henry James Turgenev by William Lyon Phelps Turgenef by Ivan Panin A Letter: Turgenev by Joseph Conrad Turgenev by Robert Lynd Turgenev by S. P. B. Mais The Biography Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of titles

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.

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.