Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev

by Robert Dessaix

Book Overview

Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience. In Russia works such as his A Hunter's Notes and Fathers and Sons, were pivotal in transforming the Russian social landscape.

No less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years, until the day he died, he was passionately devoted to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593760639
• ISBN13: 9781593760632
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

a gem!

This is a book about travel - about love - and about Turgenev. I knew next to nothing about Turgenev when I began reading it and, if you're reading this soley to learn about the great Russian author - don't! This is a book about falling in love - with people, with subjects and with landscapes. I am a college professor and too often I see students who are just not besotted with ANY subject. This book will show you the heights to which a spirit may climb once it has found its passion. A perfect summertime read - episodic, intelligent, entertaining and inspiring.