Mumu (Bilingual Annotated Edition)
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich / Bollinger, Max
Turgenev wrote Mumu with such vivid images and reflectionsof the state of the tsarist Russia that this piece together with hisother stories was credited with having influenced public opinionin favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev was the firstof the great Russian novelists to win fame abroad. One of his greatadmirers was Henry James, who wrote that "Turgenev's merit ofform is of the first order"The story featured in this releas...