Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Ivan Turgenev
(Author)
Richard Freeborn
(Translator)
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Description
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters - peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers - each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.Product Details
Price
£9.99
£9.29
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date
30 August 1990
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140445220
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