An audiobook adaptation of Turgenev's story set on the outskirts of Moscow, in the house of an old widow. The story was written in 1854 by Ivan Turgenev, a great Russian novelist of the 19th Century. Read in English (unabridged).

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His short story collection entitled 'A Huntsman's Sketches', is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel 'Fathers and sons' is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Turgenev studied literature, philosophy and philology at the Universities of Moscow, St Petersburg and Berlin, and in 1879 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. Turgenev's artistic purity made him a favourite of like-minded novelists of the next generation, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad.