Book description
Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants,…
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1 author picked A Sportsman's Sketches as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I majored in Russian Language and Literature and have a Master’s in that area, and I spent 29 months in the former USSR, working on cultural exchange exhibitions across the country, from one end to the other.
Turgenev gives a great sense of ordinary life in Tsarist Russia and I love his prose style, even in translation.
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