The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Ivan Turgenev
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 22/11/2011

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Written in 1850, The Diary of a Superfluous Man is Turgenev’s novella in the form of the diary of a dying man. With two weeks to live, Tchulkaturin takes stock of his life only to discover how purposeless, loveless, and futile it has been. The other stories in this collection are “Three Portraits,”an historical reminiscence ignited by three paintings; “Three Meetings,” a tale of remarkable coincidences; “Mumu.” the heartbreaking story of a peasant and his dog; and “The Inn,” the story of the tribulations that befall a good and honest innkeeper when he chooses to marry a much younger woman. Translated by Isabel Hapgood.

ISBN:
9781411464643
9781411464643
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
22-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Barnes & Noble
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the province of Oryol. In 1827 he entered St Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and went to the University of Berlin.

After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe. He wrote many novels, plays, short stories and novellas, of which First Love (1860) is the most famous. He died in Paris in 1883.

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