Sketches from a Hunter's Album - Ivan Toergenjev W.A.C. Whitlau The Heart is a Lonely

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness

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Sketches from a Hunter's Album - Ivan Toergenjev W.A.C. Whitlau The Heart is a LonelyTurgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works