Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Turgenev Today Note on the Translations Letter to Bettina von Arnim (1840 or 1841) A Sportsman's Sketches Khor and Kalinych My Neighbor Radilov Lgov Kasian from Beautiful Meadow Death The Singers The Tryst A Living Relic Letter to A. A. Kraevskii (1849) The Diary of a Superfluous Man Letter to Louis and Pauline Viardot (1852) Letter to O. A. Turgeneva (1855) A Correspondence Letter to E. E. Lambert (1856) Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1856) Rudin Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1857) Letter to V. P. Botkin (1857) A Journey to Polesje Letter to A. N. Apukhtin (1858) A Nest of Gentry Letter to E. E. Lambert (1859) Letter to I. A. Goncharov (1859) Letter to E. E. Lambert (1859) First Love Letter to K. N. Leontiev (1860) Hamlet and Don Quixote Letter to M. N. Katkov (1861) Fathers and Sons Letter to F. M. Dostoevsky (1862) Letter to K. K. Sluchevskii (1862) Letter to E. E. Lambert (1862) Enough Letter to P. V. Annenkov (1868) Letter to L. Pietsch (1868) A Strange History Letter to P. V. Annenkov (1870) The Execution of Troppmann Letter to M. A. Miliutina (1875) Letter to V. L. Kign (1876) Autobiography Letter to Ia. P. Polonskii (1877) The Dream Letter to V. P. Gaevskii (1880) Speech Delivered at the Dedication of the Monument to A. S. Pushkin in Moscow Letter to M. G. Savina (1880) The Song of Triumphant Love Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1882) Poems in Prose To the Reader The Dog A Satisfied Man The Sparrow The Skulls The Rose To the Memory of Iu. P. Vrevskaia The Threshold The Visit Cabbage Soup The Reporter The Sphinx Nature What Will I Think? . . . Prayer The Russian Language Letter to L. N. Tolstoy (1883)
SynopsisThe Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life., The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenev's finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsman's Sketches, seven of Turgenev's most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the author's nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.