Complete Novellas

... The Complete Novellas of Ivan Turgenev is a compilation which contains the entire output of Turgenev's novellas available in English. Andrei Kosolov The Duelist Three Portraits Pyetushkov Diary of a Superfluous Man The Inn Faust Yakov Pasinkov A Correspondence Asya First Love Lieutenant Yergunov's Story An Unhappy Girl A Lear of the Steppes Punin and Baburin The Watch Clara Militch Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862). These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.