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Chapter I
A bright spring day was fading into evening.
High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds
seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking
into its depths of blue.
In a ...
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The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a founder of the Russian realistic novel. He ranks as one of the greatest stylists in the Russian lang...
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Although his most enduring work is the novel Fathers and Sons, Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev changed the lives of Russian serfs with his 1852 book Zapiski okhotnika, much as American writer Har...
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Henry James--friend, colleague, and student--said of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev that he was "in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist's novelist, an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable,...
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A House of Gentlefolk
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
