Fathers and Sons Grapevine Press

To the dismay of his father and uncle, a young graduate returns home with a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." When Turgenev's masterpiece of intergenerational conflict was first published in 1862, it shocked Russian society. Even today, the nihilistic hero of the book still strikes readers as radical and outspoken

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