<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 Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev''s finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.</p><p>At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov''s political ambitions become fatally me
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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>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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<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...
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