Download or read book A Lear of the Steppes written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Lear of the Steppes" is a supreme example of Turgenev?s imaginative interpretation of life, and of his habit of representing the universal in a single episode. It is the tragedy of a powerful nature, Harlov the Lear of the tragedy; and the novelist?s art is directed by showing how the tragic event affects the household and relatives of the sufferer, and how the whole life of the community in which he lived is more or less influenced by his death.