| A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Short Stories Contributor(s): Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (Author), Garnett, Edward (Introduction by), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1592246575 ISBN-13: 9781592246571 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.4" W x 9.36" (1.33 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A DESPERATE CHARACTER AND OTHER TALES is a collection of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's stories that spans his career. The six tales were written between 1847 and 1881. "Pyetushkov" (1847), "The Brigadier" (1867), "A Strange Story" (1869), "Punin and Baburin" (1874), "Old Portraits" (1881), and "A Desperate Character" (1881) are a showcase of the classic Russian stylist's work and a study in Russian lyrical fatalism, idealism, and a struggle with issues of will and aspirations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garnett, Constance: - "Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 1861 - 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public." |