The cycle "Poems in Prose," included in this collection, was written by Ivan Turgenev in the last years of his life. Completely different themes—reflections on Russia and the world, on love and happiness, on beauty and self-sacrifice, on age and loneliness—are brought together by the writer into a single composition: a kind of summing up and a retrospective of his life’s path.
This edition also includes the play "A Month in the Country."