A Sportsman's Notebook: Introduction by Max Egremont by Ivan Turgenev (English)

Description: A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev, Max Egremont, Charles Hepburn, Natasha Hepburn Introduction by Ivan Turgenev; Translation by charles and Natasha Hepburn FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Ivan Turgenevs first literary masterpiece is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the fatalistic submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia. These beautifully embellished, evocative stories were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on important members of the Tsarist bureaucracy, contributed to the major political event of mid–nineteenth–century Russia, the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Rarely has a book that offers such undiluted literary pleasure also been so strong a force for significant social change. With an introduction by Ivan Turgenev, this version was translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn. Author Biography IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV was born in 1818 in the Province of Orel, and suffered during his childhood from a tyrannical mother. After his family moved to Moscow in 1827 he entered Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and, convinced that Europe contained the source of real knowledge, went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. In 1843 he fell in love with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, a young Spanish singer, who influenced the rest of his life; he followed her on her singing tours in Europe and spent long periods in the French house of herself and her husband, both of whom accepted him as a family friend. He sent his daughter by a sempstress to be brought up among the Viardot children. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe; he was a well-known figure in Parisian literary circles, where his friends included Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers, and an honorary degree was conferred on him at Oxford. His series of six novels reflect a period of Russian life from 1830s to the 1870s: they are Rudin (1855), A House of Gentlefolk (1858), On the Eve (1859; a Penguin Classic), Fathers and Sons (1861), Smoke (1867) and Virgin Soil (1876). He also wrote plays, which include the comedy A Month in the Country; short stories and Sketches from a Hunters Album; and literary essays and memoirs. He died in Paris in 1883 after being ill for a year, and was buried in Russia. Review "The first of Turgenevs masterpieces...A Sportmans Notebook conveys the vastness and beauty of rural Russia. It shows also the eccentricity, cruelty and nobility of many of its inhabitants...[Turgenev] was a careful writer, alive to each nuance of language and subtlety of style." —from the introduction by Max Egremont Review Quote "The first of Turgenevs masterpieces . . . A Sportmans Notebook conveys the vastness and beauty of rural Russia. It shows also the eccentricity, cruelty and nobility of many of its inhabitants . . . [Turgenev] was a careful writer, alive to each nuance of language and subtlety of style." -from the Introduction by Max Egremont Details ISBN0679410457 Short Title SPORTSMANS NOTEBK Language English ISBN-10 0679410457 ISBN-13 9780679410454 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 891.733 Series Number 0000 Year 1992 Pages 424 Residence RUR Birth 1818 Death 1883 DOI 10.1604/9780679410454 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1992-03-10 NZ Release Date 1992-03-10 US Release Date 1992-03-10 UK Release Date 1992-03-10 Translated from Russian Translator Natasha Hepburn Subtitle Introduction by Max Egremont Author Natasha Hepburn Publisher Random House USA Inc Series Everymans Library Classics Series Publication Date 1992-03-10 Imprint Everymans Library USA Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137880404;

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