The Jew and Other Stories

by Ivan Turgenev, 1stworld Library (Editor)

INTRODUCTION, by Edward Garnett (1899)
THE JEW (1846)
AN UNHAPPY GIRL (1868)
THE DUELLIST (1846)
THREE PORTRAITS (1846)
ENOUGH (1864)

Turgenev’s place in modern European literature is best defined by saying that while he stands as a great classic in the ranks of the great novelists, along with Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray, Meredith, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Maupassant, he is the greatest of them all, in the sense that he is the supreme artist. As has been recognised by the best French critics, Turgenev’s art is both wider in its range and more beautiful in its form than the work of any modern European artist.
from the introduction

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, Collections

260 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1868

About the author

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).

These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.

Reviews

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Five short stories, "The Jew" is only 30 pages or so - a brief story of a Jew near a soldiers camp trying to get money and accused of being a spy. "Andrei Kolosoff" is a man who falls in love with Varya, then realising he no longer loves her, drops her, but isn't persuaded to see her again. The friend (narrator) tries to comfort the girl, get tangled up and makes a mess of things.
Back to the army for "The Bully" an interesting portrait of a man who lives up to the title, he is befriended by Feodor, who the tries to get him to visit the girl who is in love with him - no more spoilers...
"Pyetushkoff" is the story of a daft man who falls for a bakers daughter, but doesn't really get very far. Finally "The Two Friends" are bachelors on adjoining estates, one tries to find his friend a wife, he doesn't manage it - but his friend finds one.
They're published in chronological order and the Two Friends (1853) is in my view the strongest, written 5 years before On the Eve, it is a precursor in style to that story.

[Don Cafone · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Жида" прочитал, остального пока нет. Пусть это будет вместо собственно "Жида".
Страдания по Эмми Россум в Призраке Оперы плюс расизм во все стороны. Хуята хуятинская.

[Yasser Ibrahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed it, well-written.