Kansyan from the Beautiful Lands

Resumen del libro

"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.

Biografía del autor

Iván Turguénev (Oriol, Rusia, 1818 -Bougival, Francia, 1883) Escritor ruso. Perteneciente a una familia noble rural, pasó su infancia en la hacienda materna hasta que se trasladó a Berlín para seguir estudios superiores, momento en el que entró en contacto con la filosofía hegeliana. De vuelta a su país, inició su carrera literaria con relatos que se inscriben dentro de la estética posromántica del momento (años treinta), mientras trabajaba como funcionario público, cargo que abandonó en 1843 por un gran amor, Pauline Viardot, cantante rusa constantemente en gira, con la que Turguénev mantuvo