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  • Fathers and Children

  • By: Ivan Turgenev
  • Narrated by: Amelia Reese
  • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Fathers and Children

By: Ivan Turgenev
Narrated by: Amelia Reese
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Fathers and Sons (1862), which can also be translated as Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev, is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century. The fathers and children of the novel refer to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist who rejects the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism between liberals of the 1830s-1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the "sons") and the 1830s liberals (the "fathers") sought Western-based social change in Russia. These two modes of thought were contrasted with the Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality.

Fathers and Sons, which might be considered as the first really modern novel in Russian literature, enraged everyone when it was published. Turgenev, however, won the praise of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James. Today, Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

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INCOMPLETE

The reading is very good. The audiobook leaves out the last two chapters as has been mentioned. That’s not good.

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the ending is missing

The two final chapters are absent from this book. It was excellent until the end, but failing to include the ending is a major problem

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