Much difficulty was encountered in arriving at a satisfactory listing of the collected editions of Turgenev’s works, especially of the Garnett and Hapgood translations. These were published piecemeal as well as complete and the more popular volumes were frequently reissued, printed from the same plates. We have had to be content with listing the first publication of each volume in the collected editions, the dates in which complete sets were reprinted, and then listing whatever separate reprints we have found to exist. Presumably there are several more.
Stories published in periodicals often appeared under very non-Turgenevian titles; as much as possible these have been traced to the more standard English titles and so noted.
The index includes an alphabetical list of authors and translators, and an index of titles containing the transliterated Russian titles and the translated titles of all works listed in this checklist. All title variations of a translated work are listed in this index under the Russian title (e. g. for _Liza_ etc see _Dvoryanskoye gnezdo_). For variant titles of a work for which only one English title is known, bracketed reference is made after each English title to the transliterated Russian title.
The compilers are grateful to Marc Slonim for contributing the introductory essay and to Richard C. Lewanski for his friendly encouragement. The compilers are also indebted to the work of Royal A. Gettmann, whose _Turgenev in England and America_ (Univ of Illinois 1941; item 416) critically charted much of the material published before 1936.
WORKS BY TURGENEV: COLLECTED WORKS: Collected editions 17 Selected Stories and Plays 20 SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WORKS 21 ARTICLES, STORIES, AND POEMS PUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGIES AND PERIODICALS 25
A hundred years ago, in 1855, the first translations from Turgenev’s _Sportsman’s Sketches_ appeared in French and British periodicals, and since that time his works have continued to gain an ever increasing acclaim in the Western world. Henry James, one of his fervent admirers, was not exaggerating when he wrote in 1874 that the Russian was “the first novelist of the day,” and Howells confessed a few years later that he had formed for Turgenev “one of the profoundest literary passions” of his life. At the beginning of the present century Arnold Bennett, asked to name the twelve best novels of world literature, included six of Turgenev’s in his honor list. Flaubert and Galsworthy, Conrad and Maupassant paid high tribute to Turgenev and ranked him with Fielding, Thackeray, and Balzac.