{"product_id":"fathers-and-sons","title":"Fathers and Sons (Revised) (Wordsworth Classics) by Ivan Turgenev","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new translation by Richard Freeborn makes Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations seem as fresh, outspoken, and exciting as it was to those readers who first encountered its famous hero. The controversial portrayal of Bazarov, the 'nihilist' or 'new man', shocked Russian society when the novel was published in 1862. The image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion, and is especially potent at the present time. Richard Freeborn is the first translator to have had access to Turgenev's working manuscript. An appendix contains the first English translation of some of Turgenev's preparatory sketches for the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by C.J. Hogarth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its centre is Evgeny Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov's political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marble City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46272275054778,"sku":"9781853262869","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_3a55fb55-d299-41f1-a2c9-0db951747a3b.jpg?v=1785868576","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/fathers-and-sons","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}