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A Nest of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom ...Show more
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father ...Show more
Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
"Fathers and Children", arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trencha ...Show more
Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; D. M. Pursglove; Michael Pursglove (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
The novel is accompanied by a rich selection of Turgenev's letters that illustrate his involvement in the critical controversy that surrounded the publication of Fathers and Children. Four of the most significant critiques of the day--by Dmitry Pisarev, Nikolai Strakhov, Apollon Grigorev, and Alexander ...Show more
Faust by Ivan Turgenev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera's eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but ...Show more
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in m ...Show more
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stays on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and gradually Darya ...Show more
Smoke by Ivan Turgenev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a pro ...Show more
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to "go to the people" by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside's locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov - employed by the liberal ...Show more
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