<b>A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world.</b><br><br>Ivan Turgenev’s <i>Fathers and Children</i> is a book full to bursting with life, both comic and tragic. At the heart of this novel about love, politics, and society, strong beliefs and heated disagreements, illness and death, is the generational divide between the young and the old. When the young university graduate Arkady and his mentor, the nihilist Bazarov, leave St. Petersburg to visit their aging parents in the provinces, the conflict that ensues from the generations’ clashing views of the world—the youths’ radicalism and the parents’ liberalism—is both representative of nineteenth-century Russia and recognizably contemporary. At the time of its publication in 1862, the book aroused indignation in critics who felt betrayed by Turgenev&r
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<p>Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 ¿ the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing...
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<p>Ivan Turgenev''s <i>Fathers and Sons </i>explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatened the state. This Penguin Classics...
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<p><strong>With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.</strong></p><p><strong>Translated by C.J. Hogarth.</strong></p><p>Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century...
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The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers.
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