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There were eight of us in the room, and we were discussing
contemporary matters and persons,
“I do not understand these gentlemen!”
remarked A.—“They are fellows of
a re...
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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 Reckless Character
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
