Short Fiction Turgenev, Ivan: A Desperate Character and Other Stories. v1, 20 Sept 2017

[AlexBell]

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) has been described as the first Russian writer known to the Western world, and the only one with a European outlook and sympathies. He was the second son of a cavalry officer and a rich property owner, and lived in the period before and after the emancipation of serfs in Russia.

Constance Garnett (1861-1946) was an English translator whose translations of 70 nineteenth century Russian classics introduced them to the English speaking public. Her work has been both praised and criticised.

Edward Garnett (1868-1937) was Constance Garnett's husband, and a writer, critic, literary editor, and supporter of D.H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad.

These six short stories were written between 1847 and 1881, and give a moving (and sometimes horrifying) description of life in various parts of Russia.

The source text was taken from the University of Adelaide ebook library, and checked against the 1899 Heinemann edition on the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotation marks, replaced italics, diacritics, and scene breaks, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.

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