A Sportsman's Notebook (Everyman's Library)

ISBN: 9780679410454

出版社: Everyman's Library

出版年: 1992-03-10

页数: 397

定价: USD 17.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Ivan Turgenev; Translation by charles and Natasha Hepburn

Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the fatalistic submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia.

These beautifully embellished, evocative stories were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on important members of the Tsarist bureaucracy, contributed to the major political event of mid–nineteenth–century Russia, the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Rarely has a book that offers such undiluted literary pleasure also been so strong a force for significant social change.

作者简介

屠格涅夫(1818—1883)，俄国十九世纪杰出作家，《猎人笔记》是他的成名作。

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