A Sportsman's Notebook

Ivan Turgenev author Max Egremont translator Charles and Natasha Hepburn translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Everyman

Published:19th Mar '92

Should be back in stock very soon

A Sportsman's Notebook cover

This is the classic book that put Turgenev on the literary map--both in his own time and for all of history. The strength of this, his first book, was such that, even if Turgenev had never written another book, he would still be recognized as the father of the modern short story. Indeed, A Sportsman's Notebook was Hemmingway's favorite book, and it is not hard to see traces of Turgenevs influence in the work of Hemmingway and other later-day masters of the short story.

Notebook contains twenty-five stories in which Turgenev shares shares memories from the hunting expeditions that lead him throughout the Russian countryside. His writing is strong because there is real life in his people and real beauty in his landscapes.

ISBN: 9781857150544

Dimensions: 212mm x 134mm x 26mm

Weight: 514g

424 pages