Rudin: A Novel of the Superfluous Man
Ivan Turgenev
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. A brilliant talker arrives at a country estate, dazzles everyone in an evening, and a young woman falls in love with the man he sounds like — after which he is asked to act, and cannot. Turgenev was the first Russian read across Europe, admired by Flaubert and James, and was arrested for his obituary of Gogol; Rudin is the superfluous man in his purest form, and the last two pages forgive him in a way nobody expects. Sixty plates of summer light and rural quiet by painters including Ivan Shishkin and Caspar David Friedrich carry the novel's brief warmth and its long Russian stillness.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. A brilliant talker arrives at a country estate, dazzles everyone in an evening, and a young woman falls in love with the man he sounds like — after which he is asked to act, and cannot. Turgenev was...
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Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist and the first to win a wide European readership, admired by Flaubert and Henry James alike. A Sportsman's Sketches, quiet accounts of peasant life, is said to have helped turn opinion against serfdom. Fathers and Sons gave the language the word nihilist and earned him attacks from every side, after which he spent much of his life abroad.
Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist and the first to win a wide European readership, admired by Flaubert and Henry James alike. A Sportsman's Sketches, quiet accounts of peasant life, is said to have helped turn opinion against serfdom. Fathers and Sons gave the language the word nihilist and ea...
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