TY - BOOK AU - Turgenev,Ivan Sergeevich AU - Garnett,Constance TI - A Sportsman's Sketches: Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I AV - PG PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction KW - Country life -- Russia -- Fiction KW - Peasants -- Russia -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches; Release date is 2005-07-01; Hor and Kalinitch -- Yermolaï and the miller's wife -- Raspberry Spring -- The district doctor -- My neighbor Radilov -- The peasant proprietor Ovsyanikov -- Lgov -- Byezhin prairie -- Kassyan of Fair Springs -- The agent -- The counting-house -- Biryuk -- Two country gentlemen -- Lebedyan; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Sportsman's Sketches" by Ivan Turgenev is a cycle of short stories published in 1852. Through the eyes of a hunter wandering the Russian countryside, these interconnected tales reveal the lives of peasants and landowners he encounters. The narrator observes with quiet detachment as he discovers the intelligence of serfs, the cruelties of their masters, and the injustices of the system binding them. Based on Turgenev's own observations at his mother's estate, these sketches capture both natural beauty and social darkness in rural Russia. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8597 ER -