Sketches from a Hunter's Album (a Sportsman's Sketches)

Sketches from a Hunter's Album (a Sportsman's Sketches)
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781420935110

Generally thought to be the work that led to the abolishment of serfdom in Russia, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album (A Sportsman's Sketches)" is a series of short stories, written in 1852, that gained Turgenev widespread recognition for his unique writing style. These stories were the result of Turgenev's observations while hunting all over Russia, particularly on his abusive mother's estate at Spasskoye. A definitive work of the Russian Realist tradition, this collection of sketches unveils the author's insights on the lives of everyday Russians, from landowners and their peasants, to bailiffs and mournful doctors, to unhappy wives and mothers. Turgenev captures their tragedies and triumphs, losses and love in a set of stories that condemned the behavior of the ruling class. Considered subversive writing, Turgenev was confined to his mother's estate, yet his "Sketches" opened the eyes of many people of his time, proving him not only an artist but also a social reformer whose abilities ultimately affected the lives of countless Russians.

H.R.G.

H.R.G.
Author: Ian Dussek
Publisher: Classic Motorbooks
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1985
Genre: H.R.G. automobile
ISBN: 9780947981044

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141398728

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). Turgenev's works available in Penguin Classics are Fathers and Sons, First Love, Home of the Gentry, On the Eve, Rudin, Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Spring Torrents and Three Sketches from a Hunter's Album.

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1990-08-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0141908289

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.

Mumu

Mumu
Author: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre:
ISBN:

Mumu is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854. The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention to the cruelties of serfdom, and received praise for its brutal portrayal of this institution in Russian society.

The Fiery Pantheon

The Fiery Pantheon
Author: Nancy Lemann
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780684852058

Acclaimed for her "gleeful and contagious love of language" (Los Angeles Times), Nancy Lemann evokes the tattered glamour of fading traditional Southern society like no other writer. Now she introduces the aristocratic Stewart clan of New Orleans, in particular, the self-effacing Grace, who is vacationing with her family at a rambling old resort in Virginia and mulling over her recent engagement to Monroe Collier, her ideal Southern gentleman. When she spots the crazed but brilliant Walter, she pegs him as a likely candidate for a nervous breakdown, but he determinedly attaches himself to Grace and begins to work his charms on her. Will Grace remain true to laconic Monroe and the ideals of her homeland or will she fall for the strangely charismatic Walter? Who will gain entry into the Fiery Pantheon, Grace's personal gallery of beloved and honored heroes? In the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Walker Percy, The Fiery Pantheon is a witty and rapturous novel about the weight of past glory, the attachment to place, and the love of a man.

Power Play

Power Play
Author: Raymond Boyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780748635931

A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture.