Produced by Jana Srna, Jennifer Linklater, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: _The Tables at Baden Baden._] THE NOVELS OF IVAN TURGENEV ILLUSTRATED EDITION SMOKE _TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN By CONSTANCE GARNETT_ NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN MCMVI _Printed in England_ ILLUSTRATIONS THE TABLES AT BADEN-BADEN, _Frontispiece_ MRS. BEECHER STOWE, _to face page_ 26 HEIDELBERG, „ „ 298 INTRODUCTION ‘Smoke’ was first published in 1867, several years after Turgenev had fixed his home in Baden, with his friends the Viardots. Baden at this date was a favourite resort for all circles of Russian society, and Turgenev was able to study at his leisure his countrymen as they appeared to foreign critical eyes. The novel is therefore the most cosmopolitan of all Turgenev’s works. On a veiled background of the great world of European society, little groups of representative Russians, members of the aristocratic and the Young Russia parties, are etched with an incisive, unfaltering hand. _Smoke_, as an historical study, though it yields in importance to _Fathers and Children_ and _Virgin Soil_, is of great significance to Russians. It might with truth have been named _Transition_, for the generation it paints was then midway between the early philosophical Nihilism of the sixties and the active political Nihilism of the seventies.