King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev

King Lear of the Steppes

Ivan Turgenev with Constance Garnett (Translator)

143 pages first pub 1870 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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A decidedly Russian adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, set in the countryside. It concerns the disrespectful treatment the protagonist Kharlov receives from his ungrateful daughters and the revenge he eventually wreaks upon them.

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