Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Ivan Turgenev
Born: November 9, 1818
Died: September 3, 1883 (aged 64)
Bio: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
Known for:
- Fathers and Sons (1862)
- First Love (1860)
- A Sportsman's Sketches (1852)
- Rudin (1856)
- Torrents of Spring (1872)
Ivan Turgenev Quotes