On the Eve (original 1860; edition 1973)

by Ivan Turgenev, Gilbert Gardiner (Introduction), Gilbert Gardiner (Translator)

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Member:	MaggieO
Title:	On the Eve
Authors:	Ivan Turgenev
Other authors:	Gilbert Gardiner (Introduction), Gilbert Gardiner (Translator)
Info:	Penguin Classics (1973), Paperback
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On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev (1860)

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This is the first Turgenev I've read. But it wasn't until page 60, when Insarov entered, that I was hooked. I'm wondering about the various references to the spirit of the black earth? (

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simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |

The book wasn't what I had anticipated. I thought it would be about the run-up to war (Crimean) but it was a romance - a love story - albeit 'on the eve' of that conflict. It was, nonetheless, a good story, well told; and with many lovely turns-of-phrase. (

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heggiep | Jun 8, 2022 |

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KostaFinn | Oct 23, 2020 |

A simple love-story set among the middle and upper classes of the 1850s Russian society to the background of the approaching Crimean war. It was slow getting into it, after a few chapter I almost abandoned it, then slowly slowly I got gripped and could not put it aside. (X-20) (

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MeisterPfriem | Oct 13, 2020 |

goes on a bit. got better with the romance. (

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mahallett | Apr 11, 2020 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Ivan Turgenev	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Apresyan, Stepan	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Garnett, Constance	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Medallion Penguin Classics (L9)

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Collected Works of Ivan Turgenev by Ivan Turgenev

Verzamelde werken. Dl. 1: Roedin ; Het adelsnest ; Aan de vooravond ; Vaders en zonen by I.S. Toergenjew

De romans by Ivan S. Toergenjev

Рудин / Дворянское гнездо / Накануне / Отцы и дети by Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

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Canonical title

On the Eve

Original title

Накануне

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Original publication date

1860

People/Characters

Elena Nikolayevna Stahov

Nikolai Artyomevich Stahov

Anna Vassilyevna Stahov

Uvar Ivanovich Stahov

Pavel Yakovlevich Shubin

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Kuntsovo, Russia

Moscow, Russia

Venice, Veneto, Italy

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On one of the hottest days of the summer of 1853, in the shade of a tall lime-tree on the bank of the river Moskva, not far from Kuntsovo, two young men were lying on the grass.

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On the eve of the Crimean war a young woman, Elena, is pursued by two men. She disappoints them and her affected, social-climbing family when she marries a Bulgarian revolutionary. Sickness and war intervene in their lives, sending tragic shock waves through an entire society.

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