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A Sportsman's Notebook

By Ivan Turgenev

A Sportsman's Notebook

By Ivan Turgenev

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Presented here in a beautiful hardcover edition, Ivan Turgenev’s 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 when they were published 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 Max Egremont, this version was translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Product details
Number of Pages:
424
Release Date:
1992-03-10
Publication Date:
1992-03-10
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679410457
ISBN13:
9780679410454
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
535 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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