Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make his acquaintance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini's Duties of Man, and other congenial documents, to break up the insular confines in which they had been reared and to enlarge their new horizon. Afterwards they went on to read Tolstoi, and Turgenev's powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual revelation of his country's predicament did not lose its effect. Writing in prose he achieved a style of his own which went as near poetry as narrative prose can do. without using the wrong music: while over his realism or his irony he cast a tinge of that mixed modern and oriental fantasy which belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his Hamletisme. But in Virgin Soil he is easy and almost negligent master of his instrument, and though he is an exile and at times a sharply embittered one, he gathers experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortifications, and love-songs.
The Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright, Ivan Turgenev is celebrated for the short story collection 'A Sportsman's Sketches', a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel 'Fathers and Sons', now regarded as one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Turgenev 's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) Features: * Concise introductions to the major works * All 7 novels, each with their own contents table * Almost ALL of the short stories and novellas, with excellent formatting * Almost ALL of Turgenev's plays - discover 8 rare plays - first time in digital print! * Many images relating to Turgenev's life and works * Special criticism section, with BONUS texts by writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, examining Turgenev's work * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Includes Edward Garnett's seminal biography - explore Turgenev's artistic life! CONTENTS: The Novels Rudin (1857) A House of Gentlefolk (1859) On the Eve (1860) Fathers and Sons (1862) Smoke (1867) Torrents of Spring (1872) Virgin Soil (1877) The Novellas The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) Yakov Pasinkov (1855) Faust (1855) Acia (1858) First Love (1860) Phantoms (1866) An Unhappy Girl (1868) A Lear of the Steppes (1870) The Dream (1877) The Song of Triumphant Love (1881) Clara Militch (1883) The Short Stories A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Plays A Poor Gentleman (1841) Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks (1847) A Month in the Country (1850) A Provincial Lady (1851) Careless (1852) Broke (1852) The Family Charge (1862) The Bachelor (1862) The Criticism Ivan Turgénieff by Henry James Turgenev: Library of the World’s Best Literature by Henry James Turgenieff by Henry James Turgenev by William Lyon Phelps Turgenef by Ivan Panin A Letter: Turgenev by Joseph Conrad Turgenev by Robert Lynd Turgenev by S. P. B. Mais The Biography Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of titles
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