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  • "The Life-Giving Drop" by Ivan Turgenev on Fictionaut is an expansion and revision of a recounting of a story told by Turgenev to a child, found in Edmund Wilson's essay "Turgenev and the Life-giving Drop" which first appeared in The New Yorker in 1957 and subsequently in TURGENEV'S LITERARY REMINISCENCES Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1958.

    THE LIFE-GIVING DROP by Ivan Turgenev Rick Rofihe 2012

  • It is for these reasons that Ivan Turgenev, the artist and the man, remains a role model in times like these.

    Ivan Turgenev by Hisham Matar 2011

  • His portrait of Karmazinov, a liberal toady of revolutionaries said to be modeled on Ivan Turgenev, is devastating.

    To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011

  • By Ivan Turgenev 1872 'Spring Torrents' is framed around an archetypal Turgenevian regret: A sophisticate looks back from desiccated middle age to his youth full of promise, agonizing about the moment he chose the wrong path.

    Betrayals Of Love Tessa Hadley 2011

  • Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written.

    Ivan Turgenev by Hisham Matar 2011

  • Ivan Turgenev 1818-1883 Novelist, poet, and playwright, known for his detailed descriptions about the everyday live in Russia in the 19th century.

    THE LIFE-GIVING DROP by Ivan Turgenev Rick Rofihe 2012

  • By Ivan Turgenev 1872 'Spring Torrents' is framed around an archetypal Turgenevian regret: A sophisticate looks back from desiccated middle age to his youth full of promise, agonizing about the moment he chose the wrong path.

    Betrayals Of Love Tessa Hadley 2011

  • The Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev Every suspect character in Turgenev's stories seems dedicated to playing "preference", a kind of three-handed whist.

    Ten of the best card games in literature 2010

  • She completed a three-year course in history and literature, all the while engaging in a mentor-disciple relationship with Ivan Turgenev.

    Rashel Mironovna Khin. 2009

  • She regularly entertained famous philosophers and jurists, prominent artists and literary giants, among them none other than Ivan Turgenev (1818 – 1883), the famous author of Fathers and Sons, who acted as mentor to his hostess.

    Rashel Mironovna Khin. 2009

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