Fathers and Children A Novel

""Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was." --Ernest Hemingway" Arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, this story 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 trenchant critique of the established order. Turgenev's masterpiece investigates the growing nihilist movement of mid-19th-century Russia--a theme which was to influence Dostoevsky and many other European writers--in a universal, and often hilarious, story of generational conflict and the clash between the old and the new. This edition includes pictures and an extensive section about the author's life and works.