Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Turgenev, Ivan

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ISBN 10: 0140445226 ISBN 13: 9780140445220

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1990

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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.

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Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these Sketches appeared in book form in 1852 they were read as inflammatory polemic and led to his arrest and confinement at his estate of Spasskoye.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140445226
• ISBN 13: 9780140445220
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Freeborn Richard