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Sketches from a Hunter’s Album— Ivan Turgenev
in contemporaryspeak some truly amazing set pieces....
Bezhin Lea, Kasyan From the Beautiful Lands, Raspberry Water, The Loner and at least four other gems are enough to warrant annual re-reads. No wonder Ernest once commented to Ezra that he wished Turgenev would have written W & P. I now have to acquire the last englished Turgenev that I didn’t have, Smoke, tho I am not a fan of Constance Garnet translations...