A Hunter's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev Fiction Classics Literary Short Stories

<p><strong>Do you know for instance the delight of setting off before daybreak in spring? </strong>You come out on to the steps. . . . In the dark-grey sky stars are twinkling here and there; a damp breeze in faint gusts flies to meet you now and then; there is heard the secret vague whispering of the night; the trees faintly rustle wrapt in darkness. And now they put a rug in the cart and lay a box with the samovar at your feet. -- from The Forest And The Steppe This work established Turgenev's reputation as a foremost writer of his time.</p><p>Great Russian author Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was an avid hunter and nature lover and used his own experiences in the woods of his native Russia to pen A HUNTER'S SKETCHES (written in the period of 1852-1874). This work established his reputation as a foremost writer of his time.</p>