title: Rudin; On the Eve (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
description: While neither of these titles is out of print, this new Oxford edition provides both works for the price of one. Add to that scholarly notes by translator McDuff, an introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life, and you have a real bargain. <BR>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # On the Eve
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ivan Turgenev
  
  
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  ##### Translated by Constance Garnett
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Eric Eldred.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ON THE EVE
  
  
  a Novel
  
  
  BY
  
  
  IVAN TURGENEV
  
  
  Translated from the Russian By CONSTANCE GARNETT
  
  
  [With an introduction by EDWARD GARNETT]
  
  
  LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1895
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
    
  This exquisite novel, first published in 1859, like so many great
  
  
  works of art, holds depths of meaning which at first sight lie veiled
  
  
  under the simplicity and harmony of the technique. To the English
  
  
  reader _On the Eve_ is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet
  
  
  Russian household, with a delicate analy