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Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Sketches from a Hunter's Album | Ivan Turgenev
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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.
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TracyReadsBooks
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This morning it‘s coffee with a side of Russian literature.

Having finished George Saunders‘s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, my friend and I agreed that the Turgenev story Saunders included was our favorite and that we wanted to read and discuss more of his work. We picked the tagged book and I‘m definitely looking forward to our discussions about it.

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johnfenerov
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I've found commenting on everything tends to unravel my knowledge, yet reveals small strands.Turgenev has a way of describing the outdoors and indoors that is pleasant, and easier to appreciate when you're outside. I must comment on the delicious prose, which renders touching renditions to peasants no-one seems so familiar as Ivan Turgenev. Yet the narrator is so self-abasing, humorous and humble for how could one know everyone.

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RobinGustafson
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This is what happens when I listen to book podcasts #canneverhavetoomanybooks

UrsulaMonarch Which podcast? 😀 7y
RobinGustafson Multiple. In this case So Many Damn Books, On Being, and A Phone Call From Paul :-) 7y
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