Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

'Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn't need them' This humane, moving masterpiece of families, love, duels, heartache, failure and the clash between generations caused a scandal in nineteenth-century Russia with its portrayal of youthful nihilism. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying Turgenev, Carson is probably the best -- Donald Rayfield * Times Literary Supplement *
Fathers and Sons was one of the first Russian novels to be translated for a wider European audienceIt is a difficult art: in this superb new version, Peter Carson has succeeded splendidly -- Michael Binyon * The Times *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780241261972
ISBN 10	024126197X
Title	Fathers and Sons
Author	Ivan Turgenev
Series	Pocket Penguins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-05-26
Number of pages	272
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