Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin

Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)

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.

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Country USA
Brand Penguin Classics
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1683951
Model 1683951
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1990-12-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140445220

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Classics
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1683951
Model	1683951
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1990-12-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140445220

Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)

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