The complete online text of Liza by Ivan Turgenev.

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 m...

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 bright...

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 sl...

Liza Minnelli collapsed on stage during a performance in Sweden and was rushed back to the United States for medical treatment, concert organizers said Thursday.The singer was performing in a Christmas show Wednesday in Goteborg, Sweden's second biggest city, but collapsed as she walked off...

Liza Minnelli collapsed on stage during a performance in Sweden and was rushed back to the United States for medical treatment, concert organizers said Thursday.The 61-year-old singer was performing in a Christmas show Wednesday in Goteborg, Sweden's second biggest city, but collapsed as she walked...

In the chaotic hours before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s inauguration on Sunday, Deputy Mayor Patti Harris took a moment to walk down to the dingy basement of City Hall and visit a nondescript office that Liza Minnelli had commandeered as her dressing room. “She’ll be right...

In the chaotic hours before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s inauguration on Sunday, Deputy Mayor Patti Harris took a moment to walk down to the dingy basement of City Hall and visit a nondescript office that Liza Minnelli had commandeered as her dressing room.“She’ll be right with...