Rudin

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. A brilliant talker arrives at a country estate, dazzles everyone in an evening, and a young woman falls in love with the man he sounds like — after which he is asked to act, and cannot. Turgenev was the first Russian read across Europe, admired by Flaubert and James, and was arrested for his obituary...