The complete online text of Rudin 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...

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Clear Channel Communications, the pubic turned private radio empire, is consolidating five local offices and moving its nascent city headquarters to Tribeca next spring. On the heels of being sold to investors for $26 billion three weeks ago, and an announcement that it plans...

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