RUDIN

a novel

BY

IVAN TURGENEV

Translated from the Russian By CONSTANCE GARNETT

[With an introduction by S. Stepniak]

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1894



INTRODUCTION

I


Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the
last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public,
first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England.

In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical
of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest
writers of our times: 'The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed
our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a
whole race,' because 'a whole world lived in him and spoke through his