Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Ivan Turgenev

 

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1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...Chaim Lewis Ivan TurgenevPrint: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...Ivan Turgenev[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...James Hanley Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been readi...Henry James Ivan TurgenevSeniliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...John Buchan Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully goo...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Desperate Character and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Al...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevThe Jew and Other StoriesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things th...Ford Madox Ford Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Ivan TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Ivan TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Ivan Turgenev[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ...Alfred Tennyson Ivan TurgenevLisaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ...Alfred Tennyson Ivan TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Unknown
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1900-1945
'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] L...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')
1850-1899'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Nest of GentlefolksPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Fa...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ...Anthony Eden Ivan Sergeyevich TurgenevPrint: Book

 

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