Language: English
Published in: 1862
Categorie(s): Fiction
Translator: Richard Hare
Word count: 72,361 words (≈ about 5 hours)
Source: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
Copyright: Public Domain
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… (more)
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