Titles by 'Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883'

When young Russian aristocrat Dimitri Sanin, on his way home from Italy, enters a patisserie in Frankfurt, he little dreams it will alter the course of his entire life. Faced with Gemma, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, he is blown away by the spring torrents of love. But fate has a chal...

Set in Baden-Baden, 'Smoke' is Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and a poignant love story. 'Smoke' was the centre of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

Coming back to the 'nest' of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his root, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins,...

This selection of Turgenev's most accomplished stories includes, 'A Nest of Gentlefolk', 'A Quiet Backwater', 'First Love' and 'A Lear of the Steppes'. In these stories we see every day life in 19th century Russia in Turgenev's signature nuanced and descriptive prose. We are faced with arbitrary ...

Written in just a few days in 1856, 'Faust' describes the elusive nature of love. Turgenev's lyrical tale suggests that with the loss of love comes a sense of resignation - and the conviction that the essence of life lies in self-denial. This edition includes an extensive section on Turgenev's li...

Turgenev focuses on Bazarov, the nihilistic hero and the first in a long literary line of angry young men, whose life in turn illuminates the social, political and philosophical issues current in contemporary Russian society.

Turgenev focuses on Bazarov, the nihilistic hero and the first in a long literary line of angry young men, whose life in turn illuminates the social, political and philosophical issues current in contemporary Russian society.

Turgenev focuses on Bazarov, the nihilistic hero and the first in a long literary line of angry young men, whose life in turn illuminates the social, political and philosophical issues current in contemporary Russian society.