Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A collection of stories by Ivan TurgenevIn "the Jew," the terrifying title work of THE JEW AND OTHER STORIES by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) the lovely innocent young Jewess Sara makes an impression on a regiment officer stationed in 1813, before Dantzig. In his obsession he pursues her, and his thoughtless actions result in tragedy for her family. Other tales in this collection include "An Unhappy Girl" (1868), "The Duellist" (1846), "Three Portraits," (1846) and "Enough" (1864). When you want to read in both Russian and English, though, there's a great option: bilingual books!Reading bilingual books and inferring the vocabulary and grammar is a far superior method of language learning than traditional memorization. It is also much less painful.