Books by Ivan Turgenev

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

First published in 1850, `The Diary of a Superfluous Man' was initially censored by the authorities, as some of its passages were deemed too critical of Russian society. This volume also includes two other masterly novellas, also touching on the theme of disappointed love: `Asya' and `First Love'.

Basárof er en kantet og hård realist, der drømmer om revolution. Men ulykkelig kærlighed til en fin dame og en svær sygdom gør det af med ham inden drømmen går i opfyldelse.

Den 16-årige Vladimir forelsker sig stormende i den lidt ældre nabodatter, den smukke, men uopnåelige Zinaida, en femme fatale, som driver sit spil med mændene i omgangskredsen. Som offer for Zinaidas koketteri svinger Vladimir mellem håb og fortvivlelse uden at ane, hvem der er hans egentlige rival. En smuk og følsom beskrivelse af en ung mands første kærlighed kontrasteret af en kompleks moden kærlighedsaffære.“I denne historie kommer Turgenevs evne til at skabe bemærkelsesværdige vitale karakterer og synspunkter for første gang til fuld udfoldelse …” – The Guardian“Turgenjev er jo på samme tid den største fortæller, vor skønneste lyriker og en stor dramaturg.” – Herman Bang”Det var denne på én gang konkrete og stemningsbårne kunst, som gjorde Turgenjev til det beundrede forbillede for så mange naturalister i Vesteuropa og Amerika … Hans ideal var det tøjlede, harmoniske kultiverede, sådan som det åbenbares i hans sprog, der aldrig bruger de grelle ord, men flyder i en rolig strøm som en flod, når den nærmer sig havet.” – Carl Stief, Verdens Litteraturhistorie

I kortromanen Forårsbølger (1872) møder læseren den aldrende hovedperson Dmitri Ssanin, der ser tilbage på sin ungdom og sin store kærlighed. Som ung mand rejser han til Tyskland, hvor han møder Gemma, en smuk konditordatter af italiensk herkomst. De forelsker sig i hinanden, og Gemma afskriver en velstillet fremtid og bryder med sin forlovede til fordel for kærligheden til den mindre bemidlede Ssanin. De unge elskende er lykkelige, indtil Ssanin i forbindelse med salget af sin gård til en hovedrig kvinde besnæres og forføres. Forårsbølger tager en vending, da kærlighed og troskab afløses af et begær, der munder ud i tab og evig fortrydelse.“Vilhelm Møllers oversættelse af Ivan Turgenevs vidunderlige Forårsbølger om den ultimative forelskelse og det ultimative tab er mesterlig (…) Turgenev skaber et mesterligt plot omkring nogle begivenheder, der er så små, at de næsten ikke er der. For Ssanin var det disse begivenheder, der formede hans liv, og som til sidst får ham til at sætte alt på ét bræt.” – Politiken, 6 hjerter “[E]n trist, trist og smuk, smuk fortælling om forårets forelskelse, der flammer op, gløder og ender som efterårets aske i et ensomt, aldrende hjerte.” – Weekendavisen “Turgenjev er jo på samme tid den største fortæller, vor skønneste lyriker og en stor dramaturg” – Herman Bang

This play explores the paradox of humour and despair to be found in the casual infliction of cruelty. It follows the homecoming of Olga Petrovna and her husband, Yeletsky, to her deceased parent's country manor which should be a happy affair for the house's resident penniless gentlemen, Kuzovkin.

This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece.

This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece.

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. To one familiar with all Turgenev's works it is evident that he possessed the keys of all human emotions, all human feelings, the highest and the lowest, the novel as well as the base. But there was in him such a love of light, sunshine, and living human poetry, such an organic aversion for all that is ugly, or coarse and discordant, that he make himself almost exclusively the poet of the gentler side of human nature. We may say that the description of love is Turgenev's speciality.

Ivan Turgenev's On the Eve, here presented in a brand new translation, is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Russian literature and an essential document of the upheaval that dominated Russian society in the years prior to the Crimean War.

Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry - Turgenev's most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new translation by Michael Pursglove - deals with the personal struggles of the individual in a period of turbulent social change.

A fresh interpretation of Turgenev’s comedy about the calamitous effects of love.

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition of Fathers and Children is presented in a new translation with a wealth of material.

A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love. The love left unsaid and the love which must out.Ivan Turgenev's passionate, moving comedy, A Month in the Country, has been a source of inspiration for films, a ballet and the plays of Chekhov. Patrick Marber's Three Days in the Country premiered at the National Theatre, London, in June 2015 in association with Sonia Friedman Productions.

First translation for over a century of Turgenev's last and most ambitious novel, now presented in an edition which contains pictures and an extensive section on Turgenev's life and works.

Considered to be among the world's greatest masters of fiction Turgenev's works explored the social issues that affected Russians during the nineteenth century, most notably the peasantry and the intelligentsia.

Also known as Spring Torrents, The Torrents of Spring focuses on the main protagonist Dimitry Sanin, a young Russian landowner who on his travels to Germany meets and falls in love with Gemma, an Italian living in Frankfurt.