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Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
$14.20 - Save $1.58 (10%) - RRP $15.78 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Sketches from a Hunter's AlbumFirst published in 1852, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" is a loose series of lyrical stories of rural life under serfdom. This expanded edition includes all Turgenev's other short stories.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 30 August 1990
- Format: Paperback 416 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Short Stories | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9780140445220 ISBN 10: 0140445226
- Sales rank: 163,815
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Full description for Sketches from a Hunter's Album
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.
