Ivan Turgenev

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Asya by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 80Year: 1858
While traveling on the Rhine in Germany, the Russian gentleman N.N. meets two fellow Russians: Gagin, a pleasant but mediocre artist, and his intriguing half-sister, Asya (Anna). Asya is a charming, yet emotionally volatile seventeen-year-old girl whose sharp mood swings and eccentric behavior immediately captivate N.N. N.N. soon learns the reason for Asya’s complex nature: […]
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 336Year: 1862
The radical student Yevgeny Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist who rejects all tradition, authority, and aesthetic principles, returns with his friend Arkady Kirsanov to the Kirsanov family estate in provincial Russia. Bazarov’s brutal rationalism and embrace of science immediately provoke a bitter ideological conflict with Arkady’s aristocratic uncle, Pavel Petrovich, representing the liberal but outdated older […]
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First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 104Year: 1860
This is the story of 16-year-old Vladimir Petrovich, who spends a summer at his family’s country house, where his quiet boyhood existence is shattered by the arrival of their charismatic 21-year-old neighbour, Princess Zinaida Zasekina. She is capricious, enchanting, and surrounded by a throng of older, admiring men. Vladimir plunges into his first love, an […]
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Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 210Year: 1859
The central figure is Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky, a landowner returning to his provincial family estate—the titular “nest”—after his marriage to the shallow, socially ambitious Varvara Pavlovna has completely collapsed due to her infidelity abroad. Disillusioned with Europe and high society, Lavretsky seeks solace in the quiet simplicity of his ancestral home. Upon settling in the […]
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Mumu by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 60Year: 1852
The story is set in Moscow, in the house of a wealthy, capricious, and domineering Mistress (barinya). Among her numerous household servants, the figure of the yard keeper, Gerasim, stands out—a man who is deaf and mute from birth, of Herculean build, yet profoundly lonely. Gerasim initially develops an attachment to the laundress Tatyana, but […]
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On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 220Year: 1860
Elena is courted by two distinct young men: Pavel Shubin, a spirited but self-indulgent sculptor, and Andrei Bersenyev, a kind, serious-minded student and aspiring philosopher. Both lack the forceful passion and ability to act that Elena secretly seeks. The dynamic is broken by the arrival of Dmitri Insarov, a friend of Bersenyev and a dedicated […]
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Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 177Year: 1856
Dmitri Rudin bursts onto the scene at the quiet country estate of Darya Lasunskaya, a wealthy, pretentious society hostess. Possessing brilliant eloquence, profound learning, and an electrifying passion for philosophical and social ideals, Rudin immediately captivates everyone, especially the young, sensitive Natalia, who falls deeply in love with his words and his vision for a […]
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Sketches from a Hunter’s Album by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 416Year: 1862
This collection of short stories is narrated by a wealthy, educated nobleman—a Hunter—who travels through rural Russia. The entire work uses the pretext of hunting to provide a vivid, firsthand account of life under serfdom. The main focus of the sketches is the humanity and innate dignity of the Russian peasant. Turgenev highlights that these […]
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Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 176Year: 1872 READ FREE
The story is narrated by Dmitry Sanin, a nobleman and landowner, who looks back on events that happened thirty years prior during his travels in Germany. One day, while passing through Frankfurt, the protagonist falls in love with Gemma, the daughter of a confectionery owner. He proposes to her and begins to make plans for […]
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