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.