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On the Eve

First published: 1860
Pages: 161

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Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) · 6 h 10 min · 13 parts

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Chapter I
19:59
Chapters II-V
34:02
Chapters VI-VIII
30:37
Chapters IX-XI
28:46
Chapters XII and XIV
24:25
Chapter XV
25:55
Chapter XVI & XVII
25:22
Chapters XVIII-XX
26:02
Chapters XXI-XXIII
29:53
Chapters XXIV-XXVII
27:49
Chapters XXVIII-XXX
36:16
Chapters XXXI-XXXIII
38:17
Chapters XXIV-XXV
22:51

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Set in Russia in the summer of 1853, this short novel follows Elena Stakhova, a restless young woman surrounded by suitors who cannot satisfy her longing for a life of real meaning. She finds that meaning in Dmitri Insarov, a Bulgarian student consumed by a single cause: freeing his country from Ottoman rule. Their love pulls Elena away from her family and toward a fate she chooses with open eyes. Turgenev uses the doomed romance to ask what Russia lacked, a man ready to act rather than talk, and the book stirred fierce debate when it appeared. Quiet, melancholy, and morally serious, it remains one of his most moving portraits of conviction. This free PDF and EPUB edition offers Constance Garnett's classic English translation.

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist whose lyrical, humane fiction·Fathers and Sons, First Love·introduced Russian literature to Western Europe. He was a master of the novella.