A Lear of the Steppes, etc.

LibriVox recording of A Lear of the Steppes, etc. by Ivan Turgenev. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Lee Smalley This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision with consequences unforeseen by him. FAUST begins at Section 11. In a series of letters to a friend the writer recounts his chance meeting with a married woman whom he had known years earlier when both were single and com