Böcker av Ivan Turgenev

Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli and falls in love. He decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, Madame Polozov, his vulnerability makes him prey for a destructive infatuation.

When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy, Turgenev's story depicts a boy's growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love.

These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

Heart-wrenching short story about a doctor who falls in love with a patient. This is a translation of the original play from Turgenev, by the brilliant writer and producer, Simon Paisley Day.

Dimitrij Sanin, nu i medelåldern, kastas tillbaka i minnet till en resa i sin ungdom. Av en slump träffar han på den vackra Gemma Rosselli under ett kort stopp i Frankfurt. Intagen av Gemma och hennes familj blir han kvar i Tyskland, inställd på en lugn och lycklig tillvaro. Så en dag slår passionen till. På ett besök i hemlandet Ryssland blir Dimitri som förhäxad av en väns hustru, den mystiska och förmögna Madame Polozov. Dimitrij kan inte göra sig fri från förälskelsen, och det liv han planerat slås i spillror. Vårflöden är en delvis självbiografisk roman om oskuld och erfarenhet, som anses vara ett av Turgenjevs främsta verk.I originalöversättning av Alfred JensenIvan Turgenjev (1818-1883) ansågs vara en av de främsta ryska realisterna. Hans mest kända verk är Fäder och söner (1862). Hans novellsamling En jägares dagbok fick stort genomslag och bidrog till att livegenskapen i Ryssland avskaffades.