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Translated by PETER CARSON. with an Introduction by ROSAMUND BARTLETT. and an Afterword by TATYANA TOLSTAYA.

IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV was born in 1818 in the province of Oryol, and suffered during childhood from his tyrannical mother. After the family had moved to Moscow in 1827 he entered St Petersburg University, where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and, convinced that Europe contained the source of real knowledge, went to the University of Berlin. Translated by PETER CARSON. Published by the Penguin Group.

The Russian title of Turgenev’s novel, Ottsy i deti, means ‘Fathers and Children’. It is reasonable to assume his children were male. Moreover the Russian of ‘Fathers and Sons’ sounds awkward. But it should be noted that Isaiah Berlin referred to the novel as Fathers and Children

Turgenev began Fathers and Sons in a spell of bad weather during a stay in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight in August 1860. He did not find it an easy novel to write and was apparently evicted by his first landlady for smoking too much

Turgenev began Fathers and Sons in a spell of bad weather during a stay in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight in August 1860. He did not find it an easy novel to write and was apparently evicted by his first landlady for smoking too much. Nevertheless, perhaps with the help of the sea view from his new lodgings on the Esplanade, he made progress.

Ivan Turgenev’s most popular book is Fathers and Sons.

Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons explores generational differences and their tragic consequences. The pages have normal wear. We ship Monday-Saturday and respond to inquries within 24 hours. The story centers around Arkady and Bazarov.

Fathers and Sons, also translated more literally as Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co. It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century. Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia.

When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy . By Ivan Turgenev Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater Translated by Constance Garnett Revised by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.

By Ivan Turgenev Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater Translated by Constance Garnett Revised by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.

Free books to read or listen online in a convenient form, a large collection, the best authors . Ivan Turgenev His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work.

Free books to read or listen online in a convenient form, a large collection, the best authors and series. When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith. Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work.

Dedicated to the memory of Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinsky. Their father returned to his division and to his wife and only occasionally wrote to his sons on large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in an ornate clerkly handwriting; the bottom of these sheets was adorned with a scroll enclosing the words, "Pyotr Kirsanov, Major-General.