Description: Introduction by Ivan Turgenev; Translation by charles and Natasha Hepburn
Review Quotes: "The first of Turgenev's masterpieces...A Sportman's Notebook conveys the vastness and beauty of rural Russia. It shows also the eccentricity, cruelty and nobility of many of its inhabitants...[Turgenev] was a careful writer, alive to each nuance of language and subtlety of style." --from the introduction by Max Egremont