Faust by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Ivan Turgenev

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 to noble and wealthy parents in Oryol, Russia. His father a Colonel in the Russian Cavalry and his mother came from the nobel Lutovinov house of the Oryol Governorate. Turgenev spent the majority of his younger life in Moscow with his two younger brothers, where he was brought up having a proper education. Turgenev started out university life at the university of Moscow in 1833, before moving to the University of St Petersburg to study Classic Russian Literature and philology between 1834 to 1837, it was during this time Turgenev started to write poetry. Whilst he was studying there he would lose his father to kidney stoney disease and his youngest brother to epilepsy.From 1838 to 1841, Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the university of Berlin before finishing his master in St Petersburg. Unable to get a professorship at St Petersburg University, Turgenev ventured into the world of politics and government where he spent two years between 1843 and 1845 at the Russian Ministry of Interior. Here he would continue to write poetry before venturing into play writing with 'The Rash Thing To Do', in 1843. Though he never married, Turgenev did have a love with the well renowned Spanish singer Pauline Viardot. Though this relationship would only be a platonic one, the two would become close friends exchanging letters with Viardot helping Turgenev later on in life. Turgenev was known to have many love affairs with his family servants, with one of these love affairs in 1842 leading to the birth of his illegitimate daughter Paulinette. Turgenev would later entrust his dear friend Viardot to bring-up his daughter Paulinette. Turgenev's writing career began in the 1840's, writing long poems before transitioning into plays, novels and short stories. Unlike a lot of writers of the time Turgenev's works shied away from the religious influences of the time and preferred to revolve his work around the political and social issues of Russia during the 1800's. This would come and haunt him when he wrote his greatest novel 'Father and Sons' in 1862, where it was given a hostile reaction by the Russian audience leading him to go into self-exile. This self-exile first sent Turgenev to Germany but at the outbreak of the Franco-German war in 1870, he moved to London and then Paris, where he would settle. Turgenev's final piece of word was a short story called 'The Mysterious tales' in 1883, later that year he would die at the age of 64 on the 3rd September 1883 in Bougival, France. His body was then transported back to St Petersburg where he was buried in Volkovo Cemetery.

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The Collected Works of

IVAN TURGENEV

VOLUME 9 OF 53

Faust

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 2

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‘Faust’

Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition (in 53 parts)

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Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition

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IVAN TURGENEV

IN 53 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Rudin

2, A House of Gentlefolk

3, On the Eve

4, Fathers and Sons

5, Smoke

6, Virgin Soil

The Novellas

7, The Diary of a Superfluous Man

8, Yakov Pasinkov

9, Faust

10, Acia

11, First Love

12, A Lear of the Steppes

13, Torrents of Spring

14, The Song of Triumphant Love

15, Clara Militch

16, Phantoms

17, The Dream

The Short Stories

18, A Sportsman’s Sketches

19, A Tour in the Forest

20, Andrei Kolosov

21, A Correspondence

22, The District Doctor

23, Mumu

24, The Jew

25, An Unhappy Girl

26, The Duellist

27, Three Portraits

28, Enough

29, A Desperate Character

30, A Strange Story

31, Punin and Baburin

32, Old Portraits

33, The Brigadier

34, Pyetushkov

35, Knock, Knock, Knock

36, The Inn

37, Lieutenant Yergunov’s Story

38, The Dog

39, The Watch

40, The Rendezvous

41, A Reckless Character

42, Father Alexyéi’s Story

43, Poems in Prose

The Plays

44, A Month in the Country

45, A Provincial Lady

46, A Poor Gentleman

47, Careless

48, Broke

49, Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks

50, The Family Charge

51, The Bachelor

The Criticism

52, The Criticism

The Biography

53, Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett

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Faust

A STORY IN NINE LETTERS

Translated by Constance Garnett, 1899

CONTENTS

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FROM PAVEL ALEXANDROVITCH B. . . . TO

SEMYON NIKOLAEVITCH V. . . .

M -  -  -  - VILLAGE, 6th June 1850.

I HAVE been here for three days, my dear fellow, and, as I promised, I take up my pen to write to you. It has been drizzling with fine rain ever since the morning; I can’t go out; and I want a little chat with you, too. Here I am again in my old home, where -  - it’s a dreadful thing to say -  - I have not been for nine long years. Really, as you may fancy, I have become quite a different man. Yes, utterly different, indeed; do you remember, in the drawing - room, the little tarnished looking - glass of my great - grandmother’s, with the queer little curly scrolls in the corners -  -  - you always used to be speculating on what it had seen a hundred years ago -  - directly I arrived, I went up to it, and I could not help feeling disconcerted. I suddenly saw how old and changed I had become in these last years. But I am not alone in that respect. My little house, which was old and tottering long ago, will hardly hold together now, it is all on the slant, and seems sunk into the ground. My dear Vassilievna, the housekeeper (you can’t have forgotten her; she used to regale you with such capital jam), is quite shrivelled up and bent; when she saw me, she could not call out, and did not start crying, but only moaned and choked, sank helplessly into a chair, and waved her hand. Old Terenty has some spirit left in him still; he holds himself up as much as ever, and turns out his feet as he walks. He still wears the same yellow nankeen breeches, and the same creaking goatskin slippers, with high heels and ribbons, which touched you so much sometimes, . . . but, mercy on us! -  - how the breeches flap about his thin legs nowadays! how white his hair has grown! and his face has shrunk up into a sort