A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), alternatively titled Sketches from a Hunter's Album, or Notes of a Hunter. is a collection of short stories establishing Turgenev as a master of Russian Realism, prior to publication of his novel considered his masterwork, Fathers and Sons, published in 1862. Volume I stories presented here, some offered singly in "Short Stories." [Illustrations by Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov for "Lgov" and "The Counting-House" and Turgenev's own illustration for "Kassyan."]
Chapter I - KHOR AND KALINITCH
Chapter II - YERMOLAÏ AND THE MILLER'S WIFE
Chapter III - RASPBERRY SPRING
Chapter IV - THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
Chapter V - MY NEIGHBOR RADILOV
Chapter VI - THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV
Chapter VIII - BYEZHIN PRAIRIE
Chapter IX - KASSYAN OF FAIR SPRINGS
Chapter XI - THE COUNTING-HOUSE
Chapter XIII - TWO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN
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