Rudin: A Novel

The sun had already risen some time when Rudin reached the Avduhin pond, but it was not a bright morning. Thick clouds of the colour of milk covered the whole sky, and were driv...

Pandalevsky’s disclosure had greatly disturbed her. It touched on the worldly pride in her. Rudin, a poor man without rank, and so far without distinction, had presumed to make...

Kortchagin was a handsome young man, a society lion, excessively conceited and important; he behaved with extraordinary dignity, just as if he had not been a living man, but his...

‘Pokorsky and Rudin were very unlike. There was more flash and brilliance about Rudin, more fluency, and perhaps more enthusiasm. He appeared far more gifted than Pokorsky, and...

‘Nature--yes--yes--of course.... I am passionately fond of it; but do you know, Dmitri Nikolaitch, even in the country one cannot do without society. And here there is practical...

She was so distracted by the unexpected conclusion of her conversation with Rudin, that she ran past Volintsev without even noticing him. He was standing motionless with his bac...

‘As you say, I had no stability. I never was able to construct anything; and it’s a difficult thing, brother, to construct when one has to create the very ground under one’s fee...

Turgenev is a realist in the sense that he keeps close to reality, truth, and nature. But in the pursuit of photographic faithfulness to life, he never allows himself to be tedi...

‘Yes, yes. I must tell you that, in my opinion--and I’ve a right to give my opinion, on occasion; I spent three years at Dorpat... all these, so-called general propositions, hyp...

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and...

When Konstantin Diomiditch, having at last learnt by heart the _etude_ of Thalberg, went down from his bright and cheerful room to the drawing-room, he already found the whole h...

‘Yes,’ he began, ‘I do know him well. You want me to tell you about his youth? Very well. He was born in T----, and was the son of a poor landowner, who died soon after. He was...