Overview
Set in the Russian countryside of grand houses and serfs, the play depicts the tragicomic events precipitated by the return of a young heiress to her family estate. As the members of the household bait and react to each other, the first act ends in a stun
Full Product Details
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev ,
Mike Poulton ,
Graham Marsh ,
Mike Poulton
Publisher: Overlook Press
Imprint: Overlook Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.113kg
ISBN: 9781585674510
ISBN 10: 1585674516
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 01 November 2003
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Reshaped in Mike Poulton's well-spoken adaptation . . . Fortune's Fool is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with Turgenev. (Ben Brantley, The New York Times ) A mix of wit and heart that many of today's comic writers would do well to study. (Elysa Gardner, USA Today )
Reshaped in Mike Poulton's well-spoken adaptation . . . Fortune's Fool is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with Turgenev. (Ben Brantley, The New York Times )
Reshaped in Mike Poulton's well-spoken adaptation... Fortune's Fool is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with Turgenev. A mix of wit and heart that many of today's comic writers would do well to study. (Elysa Gardner, USA Today ) Reshaped in Mike Poulton's well-spoken adaptation . . . Fortune's Fool is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with Turgenev. (Ben Brantley, The New York Times ) A mix of wit and heart that many of today's comic writers would do well to study. (Elysa Gardner, USA Today ) Reshaped in Mike Poulton''s well-spoken adaptation . . . Fortune''s Fool is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with Turgenev. (Ben Brantley, The New York Times ) A mix of wit and heart that many of today''s comic writers would do well to study. (Elysa Gardner, USA Today )
Author Information
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the Province of Orel, and suffered during his childhood from a tyrannical mother. After the family had moved to Moscow in 1827 he entered Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and, convinced that Europe contained the source of real knowledge, went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. In 1843 he fell in love with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, a young Spanish singer, who influenced the rest of his life; he followed her on her singing tours in Europe and spent long periods in the French house of herself and her husband, both of whom accepted him as a family friend. He sent his daughter by a sempstress to be brought up among the Viardot children. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe; he was a well-known figure in Parisian literary circles, where his friends included Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers, and an honorary degree was conferred on him at Oxford. His series of six novels reflect a period of Russian life from 1830s to the 1870s: they are Rudin (1855), A House of Gentlefolk (1858), On the Eve (1859; a Penguin Classic), Fathers and Sons (1861), Smoke (1867) and Virgin Soil (1876). He also wrote plays, which include the comedy A Month in the Country; short stories and Sketches from a Hunter s Album (a Penguin Classic); and literary essays and memoirs. He died in Paris in 1883 after being ill for a year, and was buried in Russia.
