Essential Turgenev

Essential Turgenev by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780810110854.

The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian authors works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenevs finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsmans Sketches, seven of Turgenevs most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the authors nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.