A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev.
Ivan Turgenev's collection portrays life in rural Russia through encounters shaped by the relationship between serfs and landowners. Individual stories bring the inequalities of an entire social order into view.
Read it for the connection between close observation and moral attention. The collection asks how listening to particular lives can unsettle the assumptions that make an unjust system seem ordinary.
Featured edition: Everyman's Library hardcover, ISBN 9780679410454, translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn. The purchase links below are for this hardcover edition.