Watching the Accident Happen

About Richard Freeborn

His publications include in the academic field Studies of Turgenev (OUP 1960 1963; Greenwood 1978) A Short History of Modern Russia (Hodder London 1963; Morrow NY 1965) The Rise of the Russian Novel (CUP 1973; reissued 2010) The Russian Revolutionary Novel (CUP 1982 1985) Dostoevsky (Haus London 2003) Furious Vissarion: Belinskii's Struggle for Literature Love and Ideas (SSEES London 2003). His translations from the Russian are Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Penguin Classics London 1967; complete ed. 1990) Home of the Gentry (Penguin Classics London 1970 many eds.) Rudin (Penguin Classics London1975) First Love and other stories (OUP World's Classics 1989; originally published by the Folio Society London 1982) Fathers and Sons (OUP World's Classics 1991 many eds. now a set book at the Open University) A Month in the Country (OUP World's Classics 1991); Dostoevsky An Accidental Family (OUP World's Classics 1994). His novels are Two Ways of Life (Hodder London 1962) The Emigration of Sergey Ivanovich (Hodder London1963; Morrow NY 1965) Russian Roulette (Cassell London 1979) The Russian Crucifix (Macmillan London 1987; St Martin's NY 1987). He has contributed to such works as the Encyclopedia Britannica and edited a number of academic studies and still reviews frequently for various journals. Works published in the USA include practically all his academic studies and translations as well as two of his novels The Emigration of Sergey Ivanovich and The Russian Crucifix. His translation of Turgenev's play A Month in the Country starred Helen Mirren and John Hurt et al. when it was produced in London and enjoyed great success. Dame Helen Mirren then took it to Broadway where it enjoyed further success. She and John Hurt left him a very touching congratulatory memento relating to his translation and their roles in the play.