Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.

ISBN 0140445226   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780140445220 (What's this?)   Pages 416 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Penguin Classics   Weight (grammes) 288 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 30 Aug 1990   Series title Classics S. Reissue date 30 Sep 2004   Height (mm) 198 Translator Richard Freeborn   Width (mm) 129 Writer of introduction Richard Freeborn   Spine width (mm) 18 Library of Congress 91143098   Academic level General DEWEY 891.733

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