First Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Turgenev, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199540403 ISBN 13: 9780199540402

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing.

Richard Freeborn was until recently Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.

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Review:

'Turgenev's superbly ironic story, The Diary Of A Superfluous Man, in which a dying man reflects on the futility of his life, is among the six collected in this volume, in Oxford University Press's valuable series of classic texts.' Guardian

Synopsis:

This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing. Richard Freeborn was until recently Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199540403
• ISBN 13: 9780199540402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304