Ivan Turgenev Audio Books

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal – despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise.

The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the "first Bolshevik", for his nihilism and rejection of the old order.

When Arcady Kirsanov returns from college to the country manor of his father, he brings along his...

Russian literature exudes an atmosphere of mysticism, which is said to be a natural result of the simplicity of her people....

The epic sweep of Turgenev's 19th century literary masterpiece is brought to the stage by one of Ireland's greatest living dramatists. Fathers and Sons captures the ongoing clash of generations and philosophies.

Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype – the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means leading a dreary existence, without purpose and led on by events which may, as in this story, engulf him.

On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the young Elena Nikolaevna Stakhov, daughter of Nikolai Arteyemvitch and Anna Vassilyevna Stahov.

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Turgenev’s most cosmopolitan novel.

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition....

At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida....