Preface
Introduction: Turgenev and his antinomies
1. Life and reputation
2. Poetry, plays, criticism
3. First stories
4. Serfs and serf-owners: A Sportsman's Sketches
5. Transition: the end of serfdom: the 'superfluous man'
6. Love and the superfluous man
7. 'Hamlet and Don Quixote' - Rudin
8. The 'Turgenev heroine': A Nest of Gentry
9. The New Man and the New Woman: On the Eve
10. The first nihilist: Fathers and Children
11. The legacy of nihilism: 'Enough', Smoke
12. 'There are more things in heaven and earth'
13. The years that are no more
14. Down memory lane
15. Seeds of revolution: Virgin Soil
16. The last writings
17. Epilogue
Notes
Index.

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