{"product_id":"sketches-from-a-hunters-album-by-ivan-turgenev-9780140445220","title":"Sketches from a Hunter's Album","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSketches from a Hunter's Album\u003c\/em\u003e, Turgenev's first major prose work, is a series of twenty-five sketches that capture the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia, fuelled by his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters—peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers. Each sketch provides a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage, and loss, anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as \u003cem\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFathers and Sons\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate. However, these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have influenced Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46532785471724,"sku":"9780140445220","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27339973482237.jpg?v=1749332092","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/sketches-from-a-hunters-album-by-ivan-turgenev-9780140445220","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}