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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Brown (February 21, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1613824246
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1613824245
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.89 x 10 inches
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Paul Woodruff
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Stories!
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2021
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These stories have two merits. They contain descriptions of nature as sharp and clear as Thoreau's And they give us a clear sense of what life was like for serfs in the 1840's in Russia. This book had the effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Russia and helped bring an end to serfdom, but it is a far better book. The stories are compelling, and the people are realistically portrayed, faults and all. The translation is superb.
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Ronald L. Oliver
5.0 out of 5 stars Why should you read it?
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2011
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Although it's a collection of short stories, i.e. sketches, it has a strong unifying theme and coherence. The question of slavery, i.e. serfdom, is central and well portrayed. The characters are intensely honest and quite amusing. The scenes of nature make you realize that Turgenev was a first class naturalist. Highly pleasurable reading and historical context is both interesting and important.
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Gene Brosius
4.0 out of 5 stars Turgenev's Hunting Travelogue
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017
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This is my first foray into Turgenev. It was so entertaining that I would like to review his other literary works in the near future. I enjoyed how the author creates each story as a 'sketch' in which he allegorizes the plight of peasantry in 19th century Russia. The stories are told through fascinating and vivid characters which sometimes are told by the author as an observer, a narrator or even in the 3rd person. Turgenev wrote this collection of 'sketches' while on multiple hunting expeditions in the regions of southern Russia. The expeditions in themselves are a travelogue between the countryside and village and has a similarity of illustration by another early 19th century author, Astolphe de Custine in "Letters from Russia." The difference is in their style of writing and the usage of personal experiences to portray the inequality of the caste system. In Turgenev's "Sketches from a Hunter's Album," the episodic stories which exemplifies the author's best work in demonstrating the human condition of love, death, poverty, destitution, famine and master and 'slave' are in those characters of Living Relic, Bezhin Lea, Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands, Pyotr Petrovich Karateev and Chertopkhanov & Nedopyuskin. This novel is an excellent first read for Ivan Turgenev and should be a part of your library.
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Bernard M. Patten
5.0 out of 5 stars A Collection of short stories for those who don't like them
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2001
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I don't like short stories, never have and I don't know why. I had to read this collection for a course and found it pretty good. The professor told us that this was Hemingway's favorite book which Hemingway had read over and over. In fact, Hemingway modeled some of his own stories on those here, particularly the Hemingway stories where nothing happens except someone might make a pot of coffee. But let's face it, these are not so much stories (narrations of events in time) as sketches of characters. Any plot would be too much plot and would interfer with the general effect, which is to show us the life and times of Russians before the liberation of the serfs. I liked "The Singers", as other reviewer have, but the true masterpiece, worth the entire price of the book, is "Living Relic." Nothing happens in that story except we learn again the beauty and strength of the human spirit and in the process the redemptive nature of true literature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book; good translation.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2012
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I don't read Russian, but this is the most readable and rich translation I've found. In "How to Read and Why," Harold Bloom recommends "Bezhin Lea" and " Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands," as prime and sublime examples of the art of short story. Harold Bloom, though, sold the Sketches short, because *all* the stories in this volume are just as rich as Bezhin Lea and Kasyan.

I'm often surprised by how few "literary" people read Turgenev. Treat yourself.
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Jeffrey Tedford
5.0 out of 5 stars See Ezra Pound's definition of "Literature"
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014
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"Literature is news that stays news" and that is very much the case with Turgenev's masterwork. I have never been a landowner, hunter, peasant or serf yet Turgenev makes me feel as if I'm inside these lives. Chapter by chapter, sketch by sketch, he draws us in. He makes me care about these people, their life's circumstances and when all is said and done leaves me to ponder the bigger questions of existence. Somehow there's a connection in my mind with Hemingway-without the deliberate cruelty. Turgenev leaves so much beneath the surface.
I've read these sketches completely at least half a dozen times since middle school and have been constantly on the lookout for a modern one volume translation. This Penguin Classics edition fulfills that niche in my imaginary Literature Hot 100 list nicely.
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Bryan K. Mcmillan
1.0 out of 5 stars Rating for edition only
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024
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They (Amazon/ anyone) need to make it much clearer when selling these things that this is an oversized edition that looks printed out from Microsoft Word and then bound in softcover. No one wants an edition like this. It's like a printed Project Gutenberg item. I'll give this one away and buy any of the proper editions.
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Dave Light
3.0 out of 5 stars Cor!
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2001
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In giving this book only three stars, I'm not rating Turgenev but rather the translation. I'm not a translator myself, I'm sure it's very difficult rendering dialogue from another time and place, etc., etc. but I finally couldn't abide the translator's choice in this case to render the voices of nineteenth century Russian peasants in Cockney (or other English) slang.
Examples: "He was a right pain to his peasant girls." "They felt right idiots." "He's not a gent, is he?" "Help us, mate." "Judge for yourself, mate." "He's the soul of kindness, he is." "Gavrila comprehended-like how to get out of the wood." The use of "'cos" for "because." The use of "gotta"--"And I've gotta tell you this."
And what was for me the last straw, in the story Bezhin Lea, "Cor!" and "Cor, stone me!"
If you like this kind of thing, you'll love the book. For Russian lit in translation, give me Constance Garnett (and her Edwardian diction--which works so well, perhaps because it seems natural in contrast to the forced quality on display in "Sketches") or else the current team of Pevear and Volokhonsky.
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Glenn Healey
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2016
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Not his best work, but perhaps had the most impact at the time it was written.
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Neasa MacErlean
5.0 out of 5 stars The Russian Charles Dickens
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2016
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Turgenev, a contemporary of Charles Dickens, was his Russian counterpart - and was writing about the miserable life of the serfs in the countryside while Dickens focused more on the city. This book of short stories, published in 1852, helped pave the way to the emancipation of the serfs nine years later. Turgenev takes on the character of a landowner who spends his time hunting near Tula (where Turgenev had land, about 200 k south of Moscow) and who notes down, almost in passing, the wretched conditions of the serfs. So, as with Dickens, much of the social observation is presented in a deceptively light way. Some of the stories are quite hard to follow but if you find something in the first two or three you could find it very worthwhile to persevere. Turgenev has now shot into my top ten of great writers, as I had never read him before. He writes stunning visual descriptions - of individuals, animals and nature. He has the eye of a painter. For instance: "Glossy-feathered rooks and crows hung their beaks and gazed miserable at those who passed by, as if literally imploring their sympathy. Only the sparrows kept their spirits up and, spreading their feathers, squabbled round the fences, took off in flight from the dusty roadway and soared in grey clouds above the plantations of green hemp. I was tormented by thirst...."
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A.Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars Factual
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2012
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This is pretty well just a series of observations of things which happeend to the author. A bit more than a diary though.
One can get a good idea of life in Russia for the peasants in mid nineteenth century Russia and their relationship with the gentry.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2016
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The eBook has the word "lie" misprinted as "he" wherever it occurs. A fantastic translation nonetheless, captivating and a relatively light read.
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nancysykes
5.0 out of 5 stars Very easy read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2017
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Lovely vignettes of Russian peasant life long gone.
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