Virgin soil : a reckless character and other stories
Reckless character
Virgin soil; a novel
Terres vierges
Virgin soil, a novel
Virgin soil : a novel
Novels of Ivan Turgenev, vol. 6
Virgin soil ; A reckless character and other stories
Virgin soil ; A reckless character, and other stories
Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in "Virgin Soil," his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what their future held in store. At the heart of the book is the story of a young man and a young woman, torn between love and politics, who struggle to make headway against the complacency of the powerful, the inarticulate misery of the powerless, and the stifling conventions of provincial life. This rich and complex book, at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside, is a tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.
The story of a young man and a young woman, torn between love and politics, who struggle to make headway against the complacency of the powerful, the inarticulate misery of the powerless, and the stifling conventions of provincial life.
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Virgin soil A reckless character and other stories
Virgin soil ... Translated from the Russian by R.S. Townsend
Virgin soil
Dva romana Ivana Turgenjeva
Novʹ roman / Posleslovie i primechanii︠a︡ K. I. Bonet︠s︡kogo
Virgin Soil
[Die neue Generation. Roman ... Deutsch von W. Lange.]
Virgin soil. A reckless character, and other stories
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Őstalaj ; A nemesi fészek
Die neue Generation. Roman ... Deutsch von W. Lange
TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make his acquaintance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini's Duties of Man, and other congenial documents, to break up the insular confines in which they had been reared and to enlarge their new horizon. Afterwards they went on to read Tolstoi, and Turgenev's powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual revelation of his country's predicament did not lose its effect. Writing in prose he achieved a style of his own which went as near poetry as narrative prose can do. without using the wrong music: while over his realism or his irony he cast a tinge of that mixed modern and oriental fantasy which belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his Hamletisme. But in Virgin Soil he is easy and almost negligent master of his instrument, and though he is an exile and at times a sharply embittered one, he gathers experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortifications, and love-songs.
Virgin Soil. Translated by A.W. Dilke
Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
Neuland : Roman von Iwan Turgéniew. Aus dem Russischen
Virgin Soil. Translated by Rochelle S. Townsend. Introd. by Nikolay Andreyev
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Shojochi
Terres vierges : Traduction [par Émile] Durand-Gréville revue par Ivan Tourguéniev. Préface: Jean Desternes
Terra vergine
Die neue Generation : Roman von Iwan Turgenjeff. Deutsch von Wilhelm Lange
Terra Vergine
Virgin Soil ... Translated ... from the French version, by T.S. Perry
History
Virgin soil a novel
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