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Ivan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev
| Born 1818 in the Orel
province of Russia. Studied at St Petersburg and Berlin universities. Joined
the Russian civil service in 1841. In 1843 started his career as a
novelist. Earned his reputation with a study of peasant life, Sportsman's
Sketches (1852). However, this work also drew governmental criticism. He
spent two years banished to his country estates. Russia did not accept
Fathers and Sons (1862), although it became his greatest novel. It was a
success in England. Also wrote poetry, plays, short stories, and
supernatural tales. Died in 1883. |
Diary of a Superfluous Man
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.
Paperback - 79 pages (July 1, 1999) $8.00
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The Essential Turgenev
Paperback - 884 pages
(May 1994) $19.96
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Fathers and Sons
Paperback (April 1998)
$1.60
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First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man
Paperback - 90 pages (November 1995) $1.20
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Home of the Gentry
Paperback - 207 pages (June 1970) $9.56
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A Month in the Country
"Comedy in three acts by Ivan Turgenev,
published in 1855 and first produced professionally in 1872 as Mesyats
v derevne. The play concerns complications that ensue when Natalya, a
married woman, and Vera, her young ward, both fall in love with Belyayev,
the naive young tutor of Natalya's son. Considered Turgenev's dramatic
masterpiece, the work presaged the psychological realism of Anton
Chekhov's plays." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)
Paperback - 136 pages (November 1991) $6.36
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Notes of a Hunter
Paperback (January 1999)
$8.76
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On the Eve
"Novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Russian as Nakanune in
1860. It is a major work concerning love amid a time of war and
revolutionary social change. Set in 1853, On the Eve deals with the
problems facing the younger intelligentsia on the eve of the Crimean War
and speculates on the outcome of the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
Elena, its principal character, is a charming yet serious-minded, morally
courageous young woman. Her concern for justice finds no outlet in her
small circle of family and friends until she is introduced to the young
Bulgarian patriot Insarov, whose idealism matches her own and who becomes
Elena's companion and the catalyst for the changes in her life." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)
Paperback (April 1950) $8.76
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Rudin:
On the Eve
Paperback - 400 pages (May 1999) $8.76
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Paperback - 403 pages Reprint edition (March 1991) $8.76
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A Sportsman's Notebook
Hardcover (March 1992) $17.00
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Spring Torrents
Paperback (April 1980) $8.76
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Turgenev:
Plays
Paperback - 320 pages
(April 15, 1999) $19.95
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Twenty Years at Hull-House
"Twenty Years is deeply optimistic: a
book about hope and courage, about the yearning for equality and the
yearning for peace. To a remarkable extent, Jane Addams' dreams were the
same as our own." (Gioia Diliberto, The Los Angeles Times
Sunday Book Review)
The true story of one of America's greatest
philanthropists
This is Jane Addams's graphic account of her famed settlement house in
Chicago's West Side slums. Covering the years 1889 to 1909, a time when
America was fired with fear of subversives and suspicion of foreigners,
this book stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked
among the immigrant settlers, the sweatshop toilers, the unwed mothers,
the hungry, the aged, the sick, to show them the true concept of American
Democracy. Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of
her philanthropic work.
Jane Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant
urban neighborhood provides students with an introduction to the issues of
the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. This new teaching
edition reduces Addams's original text by about 35 percent, trimming
illustrative detail to focus on the ideological underpinnings of the
original work. The author sketches a brief biographical portrait of Addams,
outlines the decisions and convictions that led her to found Hull-House,
and includes a vivid picture of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Related
documents include a description of life at Hull-House from the perspective
of an immigrant who frequented it, an early review of Hull-House, and
perspectives from other reformers.
Paperback (December 1996) $4.76 |
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