Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's Books and Stories

A Nobleman's Nest

Literature

5.0

A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Kuningas Lear arolla

Literature

5.0

Kuningas Lear arolla by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A House of Gentlefolk

Modern

5.0

The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother, who was known for her cruelty.

Rudin

Modern

5.0

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England.

Virgin Soil

Literature

5.0

Sergeevich Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. The author has written a number of critical essays, plays, poems, and several novelettes. Virgin Soil is a classic of Russian literature published in 1877. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev portrays educated young people who, under the influence of the Populist movement, renounce the life of their class to take on the dress and life of workers and peasants and conspire with them.