| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 29 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Stuart Langton. |
| Summary |
Written by one of Russia's literary masters, Smoke is both a poignant love story and a brilliant socio-political study. Marked with a barbed wit and a visionary modernism, it became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky. On the brink of marriage, Grigorii Litvinov visits the fashionable European spa of Baden-Baden, a scene dominated by the Russian upper classes. Among them is the beautiful Irina Osinin, Litvinov's first love, to whom he was engaged ten years earlier. Litvinov's struggle with a nostalgic passion is set against the background of a society pulled both toward and against change as it feels the influence of the West. A sensitive and intelligent commentary on human nature, Turgenev's Smoke endures for its high aesthetic standards and its universal qualities of understanding. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Hurt, Christopher, 1959-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982433826 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982433825 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10025611 |
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