Ivan Turgenev





Ivan Turgenev


Born
in Oryol, Russian Federation
November 09, 1818

Died
September 03, 1883

Genre

Influences


Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Тургенев) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862). These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turge ...more

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Fathers and Sons

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3.93 avg rating — 44,894 ratings — published 1862 — 436 editions
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Mumu

3.69 avg rating — 5,789 ratings — published 1852 — 31 editions
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album

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3.91 avg rating — 4,896 ratings — published 1835 — 139 editions
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First Love

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3.78 avg rating — 5,883 ratings — published 1860 — 183 editions
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Spring Torrents

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3.90 avg rating — 2,493 ratings — published 1872 — 124 editions
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Home of the Gentry

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On the Eve

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Rudin

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Virgin Soil

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Asya

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More books by Ivan Turgenev…
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

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1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
 
  48 votes, 27.1%

 
  37 votes, 20.9%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
 
  23 votes, 13.0%

1897, Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 161 pages
 
  15 votes, 8.5%

 
  14 votes, 7.9%

1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages
 
  13 votes, 7.3%

 
  11 votes, 6.2%

1778, Evelina by Fanny Burney, 455 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.0%

 
  6 votes, 3.4%

1877, Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, 355 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.1%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

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