A Sportsman's Sketches

by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator)

Overview

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a great Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of major works of 19th-century fiction. After the standard schooling for a child of a gentleman's family, He studied for one year at the University of Moscow and then moved to the University of St Petersburg, focusing on the classics, Russian literature and philology.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163146642
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	06/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	903 KB

About the Author

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: ???? ????????) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.