On the Eve

1916. Turgenieff (Turgenev), novelist, poet, and playwright, known for his detailed descriptions about everyday live in Russia in the 19th century, he portrayed realistically the peasantry and the rising intelligentsia in its attempt to move the country into a new age. On the Eve centers on Elena, a young spiritually passionate woman with intense social principles, who abandons her family, home, and country, to follow Insarov, a romantic revolutionary rebel to his native Bulgaria. A classic novel of the courage of life choices on the brink of global change. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Turgenev, Ivan is the author of 'On the Eve', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548031353 and ISBN 0548031355.