When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich`s parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour`s daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and, as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir`s unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida`s affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia`s fading aristocracy, Turgenev`s story depicts a boy`s growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love. Isaiah Berlin`s moving translation retains the realism and depth of the Russian original....

ISBN: 0-14-044335-5
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1999

Psychologically acute, subtly and sometimes bitterly comic, these six stories all display the elegance and ironic clarity of Turgenev`s finest writing. Ivan Turgenev, perhaps best known for his novel Fathers and Sons, was a master at expanding the significance of a single episode into a story that illustrates a whole life, a whole relationship, even an entire age. These stories demonstrate the evolution of Turgenev`s skills and preoccupations, from the diary form of his famous study of a "superfluous man" (1850) and his exposure of the tyranny of serfdom in the small masterpiece "Mumu" (1854), to his two most poignant and nostalgic evocations of love, "Asya" (1858) and "First Love" (1860). In "King Lear of the Steppes" (1870), the...

ISBN: 978-0-19-954040-2
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2012

At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida; and the cruelty and betrayal that followed. This book is part of the "Great Loves" series.

ISBN: 978-0-14-103282-5
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8739-2395-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8762-2607-5

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8765-4975-4

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1907 года (издательство "New York, C. Scribner`s sons").

ISBN: 978-5-8839-1976-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. First Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader\'s Library. Like many of Turgenev\'s works, this one is highly autobiographical. Indeed, the author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life, his infatuation with a young neighbor in the country, Catherine Shakovskoy (the Zinaida of the novella), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in fact his own father\'s mistress. Critics were divided. Some criticized its light subject matter that did...

Дата выхода: июль 2020

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8762-2639-6

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...

ISBN: 978-0-14-044522-0
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stays on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and Darya`s daughter, Natalya, falls in love with him. But circumstances soon will show whether Rudin has the courage to act on his beliefs, and whether he can live up to the image he has created for himself. "Rudin", Turgenev`s first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author`s later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the...

ISBN: 978-1-84749-226-5
Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: июнь 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudin is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev started to work on it in 1855, and it was first published in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" in 1856; several changes were made by Turgenev in subsequent editions. It is perhaps the least known of Turgenev's novels. Rudin was the first of Turgenev's novels, but already in this work the topic of the superfluous man and his inability to act (which became a major theme of Turgenev's literary work) was explored. Similarly to other Turgenev's novels, the main conflict in Rudin was centred on a love story of the main character and a young, but intellectual...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-2398-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin`s poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol`s "The Overcoat"; Turgenev`s novel First Love; Chekhov`s Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy`s The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky`s The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.

ISBN: 978-0-14-015103-9
Дата выхода: август 2011

10 Great Russian Short Story. The Russian short stories that will make a vivid impression on a person: The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, Darkness by Anton Chekhov, The Avenger by Anton Chekhov, A Troublesome Visitor by Anton Chekhov, Mumu by Ivan Turgenev, First love by Ivan Turgenev, The Little Angel by Leonid Andreyev.

Дата выхода: май 2020