Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev
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ISBN: 9780486400730
Dover Publications, Inc. 1998.
Soft cover, 168 pages.
Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, Fathers and Sons was the first of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels to achieve international renown. A stirring tale of generational conflict during a period of social revolution, it vividly depicts the friction between liberal and conservative thought and the rise of the radical new philosophy of nihilism. Set in Russia during the 1860s against the backdrop of the liberation of the serfs, the story concerns the clash of older aristocrats with the new democratic intelligentsia.
The impressionable young student Arkady Kirsanoff arrives home in the company of his friend Bazarov, a cynical biologist. Arkady's father and uncle, already distressed by the upheaval of the peasants, grow increasingly irritated at Bazarov's outspoken nihilism and his ridicule of the conventions of state, church, and home. The young friends, bored by the rustic life of the Kirsanoff estate, venture off to the provincial capital in search of amusement. There they encounter both romance and alienation.
This inexpensive edition of a literary landmark affords students and general readers the opportunity to savor a timeless masterpiece of world literature.
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- Title
- Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0486400735
- ISBN 13
- 9780486400730
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- Mineola, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1998-01
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