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Diary of a Superfluous Manby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0393303063 (0-393-30306-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Storiesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0393319202 (0-393-31920-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories'Book summary:A vivid picture of nineteenth-century Russian society, but above all the poignant story of a man whose mortality becomes the only aspect of life that he shares with his fellow man.
When Turgenev published Diary of a Superfluous Man in 1850, he created one of the first literary portraits of the alienated man. Turgenev once said that there was a great deal of himself in the unsuccessful lovers who appear in his fiction. This failure, along with painful self-consciousness, is a central fact for the ailing Chulkaturin in this melancholy tale. As he reflects on his life, he tells the story of Liza, whom he loved, and a prince, whom she loved instead, and the curious turns all their lives took. [via]More editions of The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories:
Dream Tales and Prose Poemsby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019102 (0-404-01910-2)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Dvorianskoe Gnezdoby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0080129234 (0-08-012923-4)
Hardcover, Pergamon Press
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460007424 (0-460-00742-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Children'Book summary:First translated in 1867, Turgenev portays the new generation of nihilists, with their reliance on the material and on science, and their lack of respect for tradition. However, the novel's hero, Bazarov, pleased neither the revolutionaries, who thought the portrait libellous, nor the reactionaries, who thought it a glorification of iconoclasm. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140441476 (0-14-044147-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:The era in which faith and reason conflicted in a profound manner seems far away, and perhaps even a bit incomprehensible, to citizens of the modern world. Most of us take for granted our right to choose the life of the mind over that of the spirit without feeling remorse. At the very least, we've learned that the two need not be mutually exclusive. But this is hard-won ease, born of a conflict that began with the Victorians. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (1907) traces his own reckoning--as well as that of his father, the eminent British zoologist Philip Gosse--with the clash. His story is, as he declares, "The diagnosis of a dying Puritanism."
The only Puritanism that dies here, however, is the author's. His parents were Christian fundamentalists and as a result, young Edmund was denied interaction with other children as well as all variety of fictional tales. "Here was perfect purity," Gosse writes, "perfect intrepidity, perfect abnegation; yet there was also narrowness, isolation, and absence of perspective, let it boldly be admitted, an absence of humanity." Despite all of this, the child maintained his sense of humor, which adds much levity to a tale of such potentially grim proportions.
When Edmund was 8, his mother died of cancer, leaving him the care of a man in whom "sympathetic imagination ... was singularly absent." Philip Gosse held on to his faith in God above all else--so much so, in fact, that when evolutionary theory was announced to the world, he dismissed it entirely because it discounted the book of Genesis. Little by little, Edmund began to chafe against the traditions he had inherited. By the age of 11, he already saw himself "imprisoned for ever in the religious system which had caught me and would whurl my helpless spirit." At this point he believed his fate was sealed and went through the motions of piety. It is not until he goes off to boarding school, and discovers the Greeks and Romantic poetry, that he slowly chooses his own path. Eventually he comes to realize that he and his father "walked in opposite hemispheres of the soul." Their split encapsulates a particular moment in history but also embodies their destiny: "one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward." --Melanie Rehak [via]
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- Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0192833928 (0-19-283392-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0375758399 (0-375-75839-9)
Softcover, Modern Library - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0393967522 (0-393-96752-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451529693 (0-451-52969-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 007553634X (0-07-553634-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 019282256X (0-19-282256-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0393957950 (0-393-95795-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451515005 (0-451-51500-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0451523822 (0-451-52382-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0192100408 (0-19-210040-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 039303559X (0-393-03559-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0140441476 (0-14-044147-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Fathers and Sons: ISBN 0192833928 (0-19-283392-8)
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First Loveby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140443355 (0-14-044335-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love'Book summary:Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence.[via]
All books in this series: Cures for Love
Doomed Love
The Eaten Heart
First Love
Forbidden Fruit
The Kreutzer Sonata
A Mere Interlude
Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests
The Seducer's DiaryMore editions of First Love:
- First Love: ISBN 0141034858 (0-14-103485-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - First Love and Other Stories: ISBN 0192836897 (0-19-283689-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - First Love and Other Stories: ISBN 0192825917 (0-19-282591-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - First Love: ISBN 0140470956 (0-14-047095-6)
Hardcover, Penguin - First Love: ISBN 0140443355 (0-14-044335-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- First Love: ISBN 0141034858 (0-14-103485-8)
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Home of the Gentryby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140442243 (0-14-044224-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home of the Gentry'Book summary:On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas that have uprooted them from Russia, their 'home', but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land. [via]
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A House of Gentlefolk; a Novelby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019021 (0-404-01902-1)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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A Lear of the Steppesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019129 (0-404-01912-9)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Liza: Or a Nest of Noblesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460006770 (0-460-00677-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Actsby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 014044436X (0-14-044436-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts'Book summary:"In my opinion ...every love, happy as well as unhappy, is real disaster when you give yourself over to it entirely." This heart-felt sentiment expressed by Turgenev's unfortunate character, Rakitin, sums up the central predicament of this, Turgenev's most celebrated play, completed in 1850 during the period of his extensive travels abroad. Probably drawn from his experiences of frustration and unhappiness at the hands of the famous Pauline Viardot, "A Month in the Country" explores the complexities of that most universal of themes, the eternal love triangle, and transforms what could be termed an almost hackneyed subject into a brilliant tragi-comedy. With his fresh and subtle play of paradox and a new psychological penetration into character that anticipates the theatre of Chekhov, Turgenev creates a dramatic "month" which surely realizes Henry James' evaluation of the writer as "beautiful genius". [via]
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The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Fathers And Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019005 (0-404-01900-5)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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On the Eveby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140440097 (0-14-044009-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Rudinby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0140443045 (0-14-044304-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rudin'Book summary:In Rudin (1855) and On The Eve (1859), Turgenev portrays through tales of passionate, problematic love the conflicts of cultural loyalty and national identity at the heart of nineteenth century Russia. Both novels reflect Turgenev's concern with the failings of Russia's educated class, the only class he believed was capable of building a civilized and humane Russia based on the principles of European enlightenment. The only joint edition available, this fluent translation does full justice to Turgenev's delicate and emotional style. [via]
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Selected Stories [of] Ivan Turgenevby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , Constance Black GarnettISBN 0434799084 (0-434-79908-4)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Sketches from a Hunter's Albumby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , Richard FreebornISBN 0140445226 (0-14-044522-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Sportsman's Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019080 (0-404-01908-0)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Spring Torrentsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , Leonard SchapiroISBN 014044369X (0-14-044369-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Three Famous Plays: A Month in the Country, a Provincial Lady, and a Poor Gentlemanby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404146198 (0-404-14619-8)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Torrents of Springby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , David MagarshackISBN 0374526621 (0-374-52662-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Turgenev's 'Spring Torrents'by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , Leonard Bertram SchapiroISBN 041343690X (0-413-43690-X)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen Ltd
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Turgenev's Lettersby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , A. V. KnowlesISBN 0485112108 (0-485-11210-8)
Hardcover, Athlone Press
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Virgin Soilby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460005286 (0-460-00528-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Dvorianskoe Gnezdoby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0080129226 (0-08-012922-6)
Hardcover, Pergamon Press
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