Ivan Turgenev: References & Edit History

R.A. Gettman, Turgenev in England and America (1941); and R. Yachnin and D.H. Stam (comps.), Turgenev in English (1962), are recommended bibliographies. Useful translations include Turgenev’s Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments, trans. by David Magarshack, with an essay by Edmund Wilson (1958); and Turgenev’s Letters: A Selection, ed. and trans. by E.H. Lehrman (1961). Leonard B. Schapiro, Turgenev: His Life and Times (1978, reissued 1982) is a well-researched biography. A. Yarmolinsky, Turgenev the Man: His Art and His Age (1926, rev. ed. 1959); David Magarshack, Turgenev: A Life (1954); and Henri Troyat, Turgenev (1988), are useful complementary biographies. See also H. Granjard, Ivan Tourguénev et les courants politiques et sociaux de son temps (1954), a valuable study of Turgenev’s political evolution; R.H. Freeborn, Turgenev: The Novelist’s Novelist (1960), a guide to Turgenev’s novels; and Patrick Waddington, Turgenev and England (1980), a study of England’s influence on the writer.