Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman’s Sketches, Volume I
1895 · 308 pages · Also in this volume: «Hor and Kalinitch», «The District Doctor», «Byezhin Prairie», «Kassyan of Fair Springs», «Biryuk»
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Edition
- The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, Volume VIII: A Sportsman’s Sketches, Volume I; translated by Constance Garnett
- Published
- New York, Macmillan and Co., 1895
- Pages
- 308
- File
- DjVu, 4.8 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
A Sportsman’s Sketches, known in Russian as Notes of a Hunter, is the book that made Ivan Turgenev’s name. The sketches appeared one by one in the journal The Contemporary from 1847 and were collected in 1852. A gentleman out shooting with his gun and dog wanders the countryside of Oryol province and records whom he meets: peasants and landowners, stewards, millers, foresters and village boys telling ghost stories round a night fire.
Told quietly and without open protest, the sketches showed serfs as thinking and feeling people and their masters as often petty or cruel. The book was widely read and is often said to have strengthened the public mood that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Pieces such as “Hor and Kalinitch”, “Byezhin Prairie” and “Biryuk” are also admired for their descriptions of the Russian landscape.
This first of two volumes holds fourteen sketches in Constance Garnett’s translation, published as part of her collected Novels of Ivan Turgenev.
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About this edition
Volume VIII of The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, the first of the two volumes of A Sportsman’s Sketches, translated by Constance Garnett and published in New York by Macmillan and Co. in 1895. It contains a contents list and fourteen sketches, from “Hor and Kalinitch” to “Lebedyan”; the rest are in volume IX. The scan has library marks on the title page and a searchable text layer, and the text has been proofread on Wikisource.
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