Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev - Sportsman's Sketches

A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that...

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General Fiction

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Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons

The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the «first Bolshevik», for his nihilism and...

Roger Melin 9 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - House of Gentlefolk

The novel titled in Russian «Дворянское Гнездо» (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to «Rudin». It is the story of...

tovarisch 7 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - Smoke

Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman,...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 40 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - Lear of the Steppes, etc.

This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 16 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve

On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the...

Nicholas Clifford 6 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ivan Turgenev - Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner...

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - Rudin

Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 51 minutes

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Romance

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Ivan Turgenev - First Love

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The «boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her» story is universal but not, I think, banal — despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 3 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Ivan Turgenev - Diary of a Superfluous Man

Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype — the «superfluous man», a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ivan Turgenev - On The Sea

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of On The Sea by Ivan Turgenev. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14, 2019. — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet,...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 49 minutes

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Ivan Turgenev - Stone

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. This taken from his DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS translated by...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 25 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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