ABSTRACT
Of the novelists now living, Ivan Turgenieff is probably not the one who is most widely known, but in the estimation of those who are familiar with his writings he holds a place above any rivals. The novelist differs from the others in the fact that he is more of a realist in his workmanship. But in spite of this difference in external form, the novel is a work of imagination, although drawn, with lighter and more varied touches. Many novels are written which claim to do no more than help the reader to forget the monotonous routine of his daily life. Another characteristic, and one which like all of his is equally noticeable in the long novels, is his tragic treatment of love. Every novelist of modem times gives more or less profound studies of women in his writings, and the more thoroughly he performs this task, the more sure he is of arousing the reader's interest.
