Smoke

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Smoke is translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. The introduction says that Smoke was first published in 1867, several years after Turgenev had fixed his home in Baden, with his friends the Viardots. The introduction adds that Baden at this date was a favourite resort for all circles of Russian society, and that Turgenev was able to study at his leisure his countrymen as they appeared to foreign critical eyes.

The text describes Countess S. as the celebrated arbitress of fashion and grand genre. People in government circles, diplomats, and big-wigs with European names are described as men of wisdom and intellect who imagine that the Golden Bull was an edict of the Pope, and that the English poor-tax is a tax levied on the poor. The train made a sharp turn and there was Heidelberg, but Litvinov did not leave his corner, and still sat on with downcast head.

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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright, the first of his countrymen to win a wide European readership. A friend of Flaubert and Henry James, he wrote with a spare lyricism, and his Fathers and Sons remains a landmark of the nineteenth-century novel.

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Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Pages: 158
Language: English
Genre: Satire
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online