Ivan Turgenev

Preface Stories East and West brings together twenty short stories from the political East and West, They are organized according to similarity of theme, but readers will quickly perceive many points of contrast between them. I think that certain emphases, which are especially apparent to...

ELL, PYOTR? No sign of them yet?"-a gentleman a little over forty in a dusty coat and ehecked trousers, emerging hatless onto the doorstep of a little country inn on the X- Highway, enquired on May 20th, 1859 of his servant, a round-cheeked youth with a whitish down on his chin and small lacklustre...

FAIR spring day was drawing to a close. Little rosy clouds hung high in the clear sky, seeming to melt in the azure depths as they floated slowly past. Before the open window of a handsome house in the suburbs of the gubernia town of 0-—(it was in the year 1842) sat two women; one was about...