Description
This book is part of the series "Vanished Nations", which consists of titles printed in places that are no longer in existence, such as Yugoslavia and the USSR.
A Hunter's Sketches
by Ivan Turgenev
Foreign Languages Publishing House
Moscow, USSR (1975)
Designed by A. Belyukin
Used book. Moderate shelf wear, pages yellowed around the edges but inside clean and unmarked. Altogether a good copy.
Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these Sketches appeared in book form in 1852 they were read as inflammatory polemic and led to his arrest and confinement at his estate of Spasskoye.
