A Sportsman's Sketches

"Genre studies of provincial Russian society. Shows wonderful analysis of character, wide observation and half-veiled sympathy."

—Literary World, Nov. 1895

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"Reading over lately several of Turgenev's novels and tales, I was struck afresh with their combination of beauty and reality. One must never forget that he was both an observer and a poet. The poetic element was constant, and it had great strangeness and power. His novels give one the impression of life itself, and not of an arrangement, a réchauffé of life."

—Henry James