Ivan Turgenev
2) On the Eve
3) Mumu
Arkady, a university graduate, returns from St. Petersburg to his father’s estate with his mentor Bazarov—a nihilist.
Fathers and Children (also known as Fathers and Sons) is a novel written in 1862 by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev and published in Moscow by The Russian Messenger.
The main theme of the novel is the conflict between
..."A Desperate Character and Other Tales" is a collection of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's stories that spans his career. The six tales were written between 1847 and 1881. "Pyetushkov" (1847), "The Brigadier" (1867), "A Strange Story" (1869), "Punin and Baburin" (1874), "Old Portraits" (1881), and "A Desperate Character" (1881) are a showcase of the classic Russian stylist's
...8) The Inn
Turgenev wrote The Inn in the autumn of 1852, when he was under a form of house arrest for the publication of the stories known as A Sportsman's Sketches. Frankly based on events that all "literally took place twenty-five versts from here," the story takes as its theme a motif that Turgenev came back to again and again in his later work: the helplessness of age before the successful ruthlessness of youth. (from Bookshop.org)
...9) The Watch
Excerpt:
"I will tell you my adventures with a watch. It is a curious story.
"It happened at the very beginning of this century, in 1801. I had just
reached my sixteenth year. I was living at Ryazan in a little wooden
house not far from the bank of the river Oka with my father, my aunt
and my cousin; my mother I do not remember; she died three years after
her marriage; my father had no other children."
10) Yakov Pasinkov
Excerpt:
"It happened in Petersburg, in the winter, on the first day of the
carnival. I had been invited to dinner by one of my schoolfellows, who
enjoyed in his youth the reputation of being as modest as a maiden, and
turned out in the sequel a person by no means over rigid in his
conduct. He is dead now, like most of my schoolfellows. There were to
be present at the dinner, besides me, Konstantin Alexandrovitch
Turgenev first made his name with "A Sportsman's Sketches," also known as Sketches from a Hunter's Album or Notes of a Hunter, a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. Turgenev himself considered the book to be his most important contribution to Russian literature; and Tolstoy, among others, agreed wholeheartedly, adding that Turgenev's evocations of nature in these stories were
...Ivan Turgenev’s short story is about a naive naval officer who helps a young woman who is crying on the street, claiming she’s been robbed. He is drawn into an increasingly bizarre situation, from which he cannot extricate himself, and he ends up beaten, lying in a ditch, also a robbery victim.
14) The Dog
Excerpt:
"But if one admits the possibility of the supernatural, the possibility of its participation in real life, then allow me to ask, what becomes of common sense?"
"My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev, a renowned Russian writer of the 19th century. The stories in this collection are diverse in subject matter but are united in their focus on the complexities of human relationships, the struggles of Russian society, and the search for meaning in life. In the titular story "My Neighbor Radilov," Turgenev explores the theme of social status and the difficulties
...Get acquainted with the work of Russian literary master Ivan Turgenev in this rich, multifaceted tale of unrequited romantic love and self-discovery. The Torrents of Spring follows the coming-of-age of a young Russian aristocrat who is willing to give away everything he owns to pursue love. But before he can achieve his happily-ever-after, a sophisticated seductress steps in and induces him to stray from his single-minded goal. Will the
...On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of
...18) Rudin
The main conflict in Rudin is centerd on a love story of the main character and a young, but intellectual and self-conscious woman. From Wikipedia.
20) Fathers and Sons
When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.