{"product_id":"a-sportsmans-notebook-9780062968470","title":"A Sportsmans Notebook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlords\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Sportsman’s Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e, Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece, is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth-century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a powerful and gripping series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese exquisitely rendered stories, now with a stirring introduction from Daniyal Mueenuddin, were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on importa\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524233371991,"sku":"9780062968470","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780062968470.jpg?v=1731855982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-sportsmans-notebook-9780062968470","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}