Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the energetic, cynical, and self-assured `nihilist' who repudiates the romanticism of his elders, shook Russian society. Indeed the image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 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,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida; and the cruelty and betrayal that followed. This book is part of the «Great Loves» series.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.