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    Clara Militch by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Ivan Turgenev

    Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer whose work is exemplary of Russian Realism. A student of Hegel, Turgenev’s political views and writing were heavily influenced by the Age of Enlightenment. Among his most recognized works are the classic Fathers and Sons, A Sportsman’s Sketches, and A Month in the Country. Turgenev is today recognized for his artistic purity, which influenced writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Turgenev died in 1883, and is credited with returning Leo Tolstoy to writing as the result of his death-bed plea.

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      Clara Militch by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Ivan Turgenev

      The Collected Works of

      IVAN TURGENEV

      VOLUME 15 OF 53

      Clara Militch

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Clara Militch’

      Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition (in 53 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 043 9

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      www.delphiclassics.com

      Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 15 of the Delphi Classics edition of Ivan Turgenev in 53 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Clara Militch from the bestselling edition of the author’s Collected Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Ivan Turgenev, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Ivan Turgenev or the Collected Works of Ivan Turgenev in a single eBook.

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      IVAN TURGENEV

      IN 53 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Rudin

      2, A House of Gentlefolk

      3, On the Eve

      4, Fathers and Sons

      5, Smoke

      6, Virgin Soil

      The Novellas

      7, The Diary of a Superfluous Man

      8, Yakov Pasinkov

      9, Faust

      10, Acia

      11, First Love

      12, A Lear of the Steppes

      13, Torrents of Spring

      14, The Song of Triumphant Love

      15, Clara Militch

      16, Phantoms

      17, The Dream

      The Short Stories

      18, A Sportsman’s Sketches

      19, A Tour in the Forest

      20, Andrei Kolosov

      21, A Correspondence

      22, The District Doctor

      23, Mumu

      24, The Jew

      25, An Unhappy Girl

      26, The Duellist

      27, Three Portraits

      28, Enough

      29, A Desperate Character

      30, A Strange Story

      31, Punin and Baburin

      32, Old Portraits

      33, The Brigadier

      34, Pyetushkov

      35, Knock, Knock, Knock

      36, The Inn

      37, Lieutenant Yergunov’s Story

      38, The Dog

      39, The Watch

      40, The Rendezvous

      41, A Reckless Character

      42, Father Alexyéi’s Story

      43, Poems in Prose

      The Plays

      44, A Month in the Country

      45, A Provincial Lady

      46, A Poor Gentleman

      47, Careless

      48, Broke

      49, Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks

      50, The Family Charge

      51, The Bachelor

      The Criticism

      52, The Criticism

      The Biography

      53, Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett

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      Clara Militch

      Translated by Constance Garnett, 1897

      CONTENTS

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      X

      XI

      XII

      XIII

      XIV

      XV

      XVI

      XVII

      XVIII

      I

      In the spring of 1878 there was living in Moscow, in a small wooden house in Shabolovka, a young man of five - and - twenty, called Yakov Aratov. With him lived his father’s sister, an elderly maiden lady, over fifty, Platonida Ivanovna. She took charge of his house, and looked after his household expenditure, a task for which Aratov was utterly unfit. Other relations he had none. A few years previously, his father, a provincial gentleman of small property, had moved to Moscow together with him and Platonida Ivanovna, whom he always, however, called Platosha; her nephew, too, used the same name. On leaving the country - place where they had always lived up till then, the elder Aratov settled in the old capital, with the object of putting his son to the university, for which he had himself prepared him; he bought for a trifle a little house in one of the outlying streets, and established himself in it, with all his books and scientific odds and ends. And of books and odds and ends he had many — for he was a man of some considerable learning … ‘an out - and - out eccentric,’ as his neighbours said of him. He positively passed among them for a sorcerer; he had even been given the title of an ‘insectivist.’ He studied chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, botany, and medicine; he doctored patients gratis with herbs and metallic powders of his own invention, after the method of Paracelsus. These same powders were the means of his bringing to the grave his pretty, young, too delicate wife, whom he passionately loved, and by whom he had an only son. With the same powders he fairly ruined his son’s health too, in the hope and intention of strengthening it, as he detected anæmia and a tendency to consumption in his constitution inherited from his mother. The name of ‘sorcerer’ had been given him partly because he regarded himself as a descendant — not in the direct line, of course — of the great Bruce, in honour of whom he had called his son Yakov, the Russian form of James.

      He was what is called a most good - natured man, but of melancholy temperament, pottering, and timid, with a bent for everything mysterious and occult…. A half - whispered ah! was his habitual exclamation; he even died with this exclamation on his lips, two years after his removal to Moscow.

      His son, Yakov, was in appearance unlike his father, who had been plain, clumsy, and awkward; he took more after his mother. He had the same delicate pretty features, the same soft ash - coloured hair, the same little aquiline nose, the same pouting childish lips, and great greenish - grey languishing eyes, with soft eyelashes. But in character he was like his father; and the face, so unlike the father’s face, wore the father’s expression; and he had the triangular - shaped hands and hollow chest of the old Aratov, who ought, however, hardly to be called old, since he never reached his fiftieth year. Before his death, Yakov had already entered the university in the faculty of physics and mathematics; he did not, however, complete his course; not through laziness, but because, according to his notions, you could learn no more in the university than you could studying alone at home; and he did not go in for a diploma because he had no idea of entering the government service. He was shy with his

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