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Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands | Ivan Turgenev
4 posts | 4 read | 10 to read
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). Turgenev's works available in Penguin Classics are Fathers and Sons, First Love, Home of the Gentry, On the Eve, Rudin, Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Spring Torrents and Three Sketches from a Hunter's Album.
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TCLinrow
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Mehso-so

I wanted something quick and simple to read while I was at work today as it's been a nightmarish day!

This book was... meh. The stories were nothing overly exciting, though mildly amusing, and either the telling or the translation were bland.

It was readable. That's as close as I can get to a compliment... but it was quick and simple too, so I guess theres that...

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Naz786
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Pickpick

⭐⭐⭐/5

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Brie
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Mehso-so

Well-written short stories but too much lacking of plot for my taste. Stories of rural Russian peasants and their lamentable lives. Apparently important enough to help abolish serfdom in 1861.

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Obviousstate
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"You know, like it or not, it's horrible to be dying at twenty-five years of age without ever having loved someone--and that's what was driving her crazy, and why, out of desperation she had chosen me." - Turgenev, District Doctor

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