A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Lord Manleigh’s request to change the contributors of A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) Monday, November 16 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Richard Freeborn: (Primary NoneTranslator)

Lord Manleigh edited the contributors of A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) Monday, November 16 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Richard Freeborn: (Primary NoneTranslator)

Shelfari edited the description of A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) Sunday, August 30 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) Sunday, August 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Richard Freeborn: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Punxsutawney Paul’s request to combine 7 books, including A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev), Sunday, August 30 2009.

Punxsutawney Paul submitted a request to combine 7 books, including A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev), Sunday, August 23 2009.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A sportsman's sketches (The novels of Ivan Turgenev) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by the striking difference between the race of people in the province of Orel and the population of the province of Kaluga.