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On the Eve
by Ivan Turgenev; Gilbert Gardiner (translator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Near Fine. Translated by Gilbert Gardiner. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Faint wear to corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and 7 color illustrations by Lauren Nassef. Introduction by Hisham Matar. No dust jacket, as issued. The gold cardboard slipcase is very good with light wear and a few scuffs. 172 pages. 7½ x 11½" tall. First published in 1860.
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events which challenge notions of love, revolution and idealism.
A highly controversial work upon its original publication, Ivan Turgenev's On the Eve is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Russian literature and an essential document of the upheaval that dominated Russian society in the years prior to the Crimean War.
Synopsis
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the Province of Orel, and suffered during his childhood from a tyrannical mother. After the family had moved to Moscow in 1827 he entered Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and, convinced that Europe contained the source of real knowledge, went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. In 1843 he fell in love with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, a young Spanish singer, who influenced the rest of his life; he followed her on her singing tours in Europe and spent long periods in the French house of herself and her husband, both of whom accepted him as a family friend. He sent his daughter by a sempstress to be brought up among the Viardot children. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe; he was a well-known figure in Parisian literary circles, where his friends included Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers, and an honorary degree was conferred on him at Oxford. His series of six novels reflect a period of Russian life from 1830s to the 1870s: they are Rudin (1855), A House of Gentlefolk (1858), On the Eve (1859; a Penguin Classic), Fathers and Sons (1861), Smoke (1867) and Virgin Soil (1876). He also wrote plays, which include the comedy A Month in the Country ; short stories and Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (a Penguin Classic); and literary essays and memoirs. He died in Paris in 1883 after being ill for a year, and was buried in Russia.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3988
- Title
- On the Eve
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev; Gilbert Gardiner (translator)
- Illustrator
- Lauren Nassef
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Folio Society
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 172
- Size
- 7.5 x 11.5
- Weight
- 4.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Folio Society, slipcase, Russian literature, romance, classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions; The Folio Society;
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