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Ivan Turgenev

Born

in Oryol, Russian Federation

November 09, 1818

Died

September 03, 1883

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Pushkin, Schiller, Bakunin, Goethe, Schopenhauer

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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 by Ivan Turgenev, George Reavy (Translator), Jane Costlow (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 44,894 ratings — published 1862 — 436 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mumu 3.69 avg rating — 5,789 ratings — published 1852 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 4,896 ratings — published 1835 — 139 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 5,883 ratings — published 1860 — 183 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Schapiro (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 2,493 ratings — published 1872 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,986 ratings — published 1858 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Eve 3.80 avg rating — 1,926 ratings — published 1860 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 1,552 ratings — published 1856 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 1,204 ratings — published 1877 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asya 3.96 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — published 1858 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

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

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

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“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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April 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages

48 votes, 27.1%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages

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%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

14 votes, 7.9%

1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages

13 votes, 7.3%

1844, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas, 542 pages

11 votes, 6.2%

1778, Evelina by Fanny Burney, 455 pages

7 votes, 4.0%

1891, Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, 368 pages

6 votes, 3.4%

1877, Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, 355 pages

2 votes, 1.1%

1871, The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 132 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

177 total votes

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