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| Name: |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | | Birth Date: |
November 9, 1818 | | Death Date: |
September 3, 1883 | | Place of Birth: |
Orel Province, Russia | | Place of Death: |
Bougival, France | | Nationality: |
Russian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, dramatist, writer |
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 Biography of Ivan Turgenev
14,826 words, approx. 49 pages
 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, and ineradicably established." Turgenev himself was... summary from source:
 Biography of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
2,443 words, approx. 8 pages
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 language. The life of Ivan Turgenev is woven like a... summary from source:
 Biography of Ivan Turgenev
2,129 words, approx. 7 pages
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe did the lives of America's black... 
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 Ivan Turgenev Quotes
85 words, approx. 1 pages
 Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself. Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Turgenev, Ivan (Sergeyevich)
205 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 9, 1818, Oryol, Russia—died Sept. 3, 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France) Russian novelist, poet, and playwright. His years at the University of Berlin convinced him of the West's superiority and the need for Russia to Westernize. He... summary from source:
 Ivan Turgenev Information
1,607 words, approx. 5 pages
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ turˈgʲenʲɪf]) (November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3 [O.S. August 22] 1883) was a Russian novelist and...
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 Monarch Notes Works of Ivan Turgenev: Biography
01/01/1963: 2,978 words, approx. 10 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Biography Family Background: In this post-Freudian age, the story of Ivan Turgenev's childhood and adolescence sounds like a contrived textbook case demonstrating intolerable psychological stress and disorder. Turgenev's mother, Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, was an extremely rich, extremely ugly and extremely disturbed... summary from source:
Journal of European Studies Ivan Turgenev and Britain. (book reviews)
09/01/1996: 1,376 words, approx. 5 pages The editors of these two valuable collections keep their options open with the non-committal 'and' conjoining man and nation in their titles. The essays brought together are diverse in origin, theme and approach, ranging from unsigned press notices and reviews of Turgenev's novels... summary from source:
 AP News Reality tempers idealism in `Salvage'
2/18/2007: 574 words, approx. 2 pagesThe passions of their idealistic youth run up against reality and middle-age for the 19th century revolutionaries and intellectuals in "Salvage," the third chapter of "The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's masterful trilogy of man's quest for a new and better world.Rueful resignation isn't as... summary from source:
The New York Observer Stoppard\'d5s History Lesson: Russian Revolutionaries 101
12/3/2006: 1,331 words, approx. 4 pagesAs you enter the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center for the opening installment of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about the fate of the revolutionary intellectuals of mid-19th-century Russia, it would be understandable if you were overcome by the fear that you...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sander Brouwer
18,221 words, approx. 61 pages
In the following excerpt, Brouwer studies elements of Romanticism and Realism in Turgenev's short stories, suggesting that the author creates a tension between the two styles in his short prose.
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Critical Essay by Nick Worrall
16,011 words, approx. 53 pages
In the following excerpt, Worrall analyzes all of Turgenev's plays except A Month in the Country.
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Critical Essay by Nancy H. Traill
15,677 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Traill discusses elements of the paranormal and the supernatural in Turgenev's fiction.
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