Sketches from a Hunter's Album - Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five sketches, the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416