A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a cycle of short stories published in 1852. Through the eyes of a hunting narrator, these sketches reveal the lives of Russian peasants and their masters across various estates and villages. Each encounter—whether with shrewd farmers, idealistic dreamers, or corrupt officials—exposes the injustices of serfdom and the stark contrasts between nobility and peasantry. Based on Turgenev's own observations at his mother's estate,
these stories blend vivid character portraits with social commentary, establishing him as a major voice in Russian realist literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 |
| Title |
A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches |
| Contents | Tatyana Borissovna and her nephew -- Death -- The singers -- Piotr Petrovitch Karataev -- The tryst -- The Hamlet of the Shtchigri District -- Tchertop-Hanov and Nedopyuskin. -- The end of Tchertop-Hanov -- A living relic -- The rattling of wheels -- The forest and the steppe. |
| Credits |
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Garcia, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Country life -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Peasants -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8744 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-08744-3 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Oct 12, 2014 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1331 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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