A Sportsman's Sketches
by:
Ivan Turgenev (author)
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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / Europe / Russia
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781407649641 (1407649647)
Publish date: January 29th 2010
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
19th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Short Stories
This one transported me back the old Russia of 1850s, Russia of my childhood. Turgenev is different from both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, yet their equal in stature, a true master of prose. Sketches depict life of peasants and landlords in pre-1850(before serfdom was abolished)Russia, from the eyes of ...
The Book Report: This edition of "A Sportsman's Sketches" or "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" contains 13 of a possible 25 short fictions published by the tyro writer in Russia's preeminent literary magazine, The Contemporary, from 1847 to 1851. These were his first prose outpourings, designed to su...
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