Smoke was published in 1867 and translated into English in 1896. It was written when Turgenev was based in Baden, amongst the resorts that were favoured by many Russians. The most cosmopolitan of all Turgenev's works Smoke sketches the intricacies of the aristocratic and Young Russia parties at a time when Russia was changing from the philosophical Nihilism of the 1860s to the more politically active Nihilism of the 1870s. An attack on all political parties and on the Russian nature of analysing everything but doing nothing ...
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Smoke was published in 1867 and translated into English in 1896. It was written when Turgenev was based in Baden, amongst the resorts that were favoured by many Russians. The most cosmopolitan of all Turgenev's works Smoke sketches the intricacies of the aristocratic and Young Russia parties at a time when Russia was changing from the philosophical Nihilism of the 1860s to the more politically active Nihilism of the 1870s. An attack on all political parties and on the Russian nature of analysing everything but doing nothing, Smoke's success was immediate and great. Despite the pervasive politics in the book the two central characters, Litvinov and Irina, are not political figures. Litvinov is gentle, sympathetic and intelligent while Irina is one of the best examples of Turgenev's creation of woman. A mixture of irresistibility and innocence, will she manage to distract Litvinov from Tatyana, his fianc???e? Smoke was described by Edward Garnett in 1896 as 'the finest example in literature of a subjective psychological study of passion ... [and] a classic for all time'.
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Good. Good+, occasional passages marked in the margins but no underlining. Otherwise VG. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 220 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.
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Good. Book 19th century novel by the great Russian novelist. Lacks the front endpapers, rear endpapers are fragile, front inner hinge starting to crack, light edge wear.
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New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from US! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 220 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.
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Good; No jacket. 1915 Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright 1904. NOT ex-library. Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. Hardcover has green textured cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Name and additional notation in ink on front free endpaper. Another name stamped in ink on front endpaper, now marked out. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. A few pages have a light handling smudge in the margin. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
If you want to know what it was like to be in a Rhine gambling resort in the mid 19th century read Smoke.
The mix of people could no doubt be seen in modern Las Vegas but without Russian aristocrats, Lenin saw to that!
Turgenev is a master writer, this is I think not his best work, I like "Sportsmans Sketches" this is a personal thing, but this is like saying the modern Rolls Royce is not as good as the old ones, they are all brilliant.
Turgenev, a most human man, put Russian writers on the word map, they never left it since.
