Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Children
1895 · 396 pages
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Edition
- The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, Volume IV; translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Edward Garnett
- Published
- New York, Macmillan and Co., 1895
- Pages
- 396
- File
- DjVu, 5.3 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Fathers and Children, also known in English as Fathers and Sons, is Ivan Turgenev’s best-known novel. It came out in 1862 in the Russian Messenger. The young graduate Arkady Kirsanov brings his friend Yevgeny Bazarov home to his father’s small estate. Bazarov, a medical student, calls himself a nihilist: he accepts nothing on authority and has no use for art, poetry or aristocratic manners, which soon sets him against Arkady’s fastidious uncle Pavel Petrovich. His certainty is later shaken when he falls in love with the cool and clever widow Anna Odintsova.
The book caught the quarrel between the liberal men of the 1840s and the radical young of the 1860s, and it made the word nihilist famous. Readers on both sides were angered by it at first; today Bazarov is counted among the great characters of Russian fiction.
Constance Garnett’s translation appeared in 1895 as part of her collected Novels of Ivan Turgenev, an early landmark in her long career as the leading English translator of Russian literature.
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Volume IV of The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett and published in New York by Macmillan and Co. in 1895; the colophon names T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press as printers. The book opens with an introduction by Edward Garnett, dated June 1895, and a list of the characters’ names with a note on pronunciation. The scan has library marks on the opening pages and a searchable text layer.
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