A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume I [Paperback]

Ivan Turgenev (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 11, 2003

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: IndyPublish (September 11, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1414200854
• ISBN-13: 978-1414200859
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,148,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A scathing indictment of social inequality, September 24, 2006

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This review is from: A Sportsman's Sketches, VI (Hardcover)

Turgenev's great collection of stories unfolds like a gentleman's guide to hunting in the 19th Century Russian countryside, but emerges as a documentary indictment of serfdom, its injustices exposed with elegant, biting irony. His strong moral center, outrage at brutality, extraordinary gift for delineating and plumbing the depths of character, and sheer entertainment value, make me think of Turgenev as a Russian Mark Twain. And he captures the quality of light at various times of day, and the colors of the forests and meadows he stalks, with the accuracy and feeling of a great Impressionist painter. Maybe he's Mark Twain crossed with Edouard Manet. Constance Garnett's translation is neutral, and yet antique enough to capture the feeling of another time; the very few British colloquialisms do not hinder the reader from believing he is in another place entirely. Unbeatable and unmissable.