Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
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“I loved this book as a teenager and have never forgotten how completely absorbed I was by Turgenev’s wonderfully evocative world.”
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Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, Fathers and Sons was the first of the great nineteenthcentury 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 philoso...
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“I loved this book as a teenager and have never forgotten how completely absorbed I was by Turgenev’s wonderfully evocative world.”
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