Fathers and Sons (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Turgenev, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486400735 ISBN 13: 9780486400730

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Against the background of the liberation of Russia's serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue when an outspoken young nihilist accompanies a school friend home for an extended visit. One of the truly great 19th-century Russian novels, available in an inexpensive edition.

About this title

Review:

"No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration."
--Edmund Wilson

-No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.-
--Edmund Wilson

About the Author:

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the province of Oryol. In 1827 he entered St Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe. He wrote many novels, plays, short stories and novellas, of which First Love (1860) is the most famous. He died in Paris in 1883.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486400735
• ISBN 13: 9780486400730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176