Mumu - Audio Book Edition Author:Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett, Max Bollinger An audio book adaptation of Turgenev's story set on the outskirts of Moscow, in the house of an old widow. The story was written in 1854 by Ivan Turgenev, a great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. Read in English (unabridged). Turgenev wrote Mumu with such vivid images and reflections of the state of the tsarist Russia that this piece... more » together with his other stories was credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev was the first of the great Russian novelists to win fame abroad. One of his great admirers was Henry James, who wrote that Turgenev's merit of form is of the first order« less