The Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff

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Excerpt from The Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff: The Jew, and Other StoriesAndrei kolosoff, Turgénieff's first short story, was constructed - said the Russian critics strictly in accordance with the Views which, at that epoch were regarded as new and just. The author, then a government official, employed most Of his time in reading George Sand's nov els, and the traces Of her in¿uence are perceptible throughout this story. One critic Obj ects that the author's View of his first hero is - in spite Of its poetical coloring - unnatural, illogical, inhuman, unfaithful to reality, and that it does not conform to the character of kolosoff as portrayed in the story. He maintains that no one would have tol erated the remarkable and incomparable koioso¿' in ordinary healthy life, because he was ah normal, and his abnormality gave rise to the same thing in all the other characters of the story.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.