Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети , which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony. Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. The father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Marino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon...
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Author:Ivan Turgenev
Genre:Philosophy, Fiction, Politics
Year published:1862
Number of editions:33

Author of Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
October 28, 1818 - September 3, 1883
Birthplace:Oryol

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
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Additional works by Ivan Turgenev
BookGenre
Home of the Gentry Romance novel
First Love Novel
Rudin Romance novel
On the Eve Romance novel
Letters
Dvori︠a︡nskoe gnezdo
nest of hereditary legislators
Padres E Hijos / Fathers And Sons
Mumu
portrait game
Punin i Baburin
hunting sketches
plays of Ivan S. Turgenev
works of Iv©Øan Turg©Øenieff
brigadier, and other stories
sportman's notebook
Poems in prose
A Reckless Character
Vintage Turgenev
En Visperas
Fumée
Geḳlibene shrifṭen
Sochinenii͡a︡ v dvenadt͡s︡ati tomakh
Strannai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡
Ïvan Turgénieff's Spring floods
Moo-moo and The district doctor
Nouvelle correspondance inédite
A Friendship in Letters
Jew, etc
Fortune's fool
König Lear der steppe
Mémoires d'un seigneur russe; ou Tableau de la situation actuelle des nobles et des paysans dans les provinces russes
Virgin soil
Angxeneng nggimêlêri
bulgare, à la veille
Faust
mysterious tales of Ivan Turgenev
Nido de hidalgos/A Nest of Nobles
two friends
essential Turgenev
Love and death
Primer Amor
Terres vierges
Turgenev
Andreĭ Kolosov
Iz Parizhskogo arkhiva I. S. Turgeneva
reliques vivantes ..
A house of gentlefolk
Three famous plays
Asia. Libro De Lectura
Briefe
Hamlet and Don Quixote
Perepiska I.S. Turgeneva
Veshnīi︠a︡ vody
Annals Of A Sportsman
Romans et nouvelles complets
Russian life in the interior
Liza
Väter und Söhne
Mumu i drugie rasskazy
Mumu and Kassyan of Fair Springs
Mesiats v derevne
Poemas En Prosa
Asya
Gedichte in Prosa
Ott︠s︡y i deti
Lettres à Madame Viardot
A Sportsman's Sketches
Zapiski okhotnika
District Doctor & Other Stories
Neuland
Novʹ
Rudin a Nest of the Gentry
Rudin, a novel, by Ivan Turgenev
Letters in Two Volumes
Kholostiak
Literary reminiscences and autobiographical fragments
Notes of a Hunter
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Izbrannoe
St︠s︡eny i komedii
Three novellas about love
Three short novels
Tourguéneff and his French circle
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡ i poėmy
Tourguéneff and his French circle
Diary of a Superfluous Man
El Primer Amor
Pisʹma kʹgrafine E. E. Lambertʹ
The Country Doctor
hunter's sketches
Stepnoĭ korolʹ Lir
eaux printanières
Malinovai͡a︡ voda
nichée de gentilshommes
Jew, and other stories
Statʹi o pisateli͡a︡kh
Humo
Romany
Visions
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Characters in Fathers and Sons

Arkady Nikolaevich Kirsanov
Arkady Nikolaevich Kirsanov

Arkady Nikolaevich Kirsanov is a fictional character from Fathers and Sons.

Vasily Ivanovich Bazarov
Vasily Ivanovich Bazarov

Vasily Ivanovich Bazarov is a fictional character from Fathers and Sons.

Literary Genres

Philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Politics
Politics

Politics as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments,...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    The book "Fathers and Sons" is of which literary genre?
  • A:
    The written work is classified as- Philosophy and Fiction.
  • Q:
    The work, "Fathers and Sons" covers what subject area?
  • A:
    "Fathers and Sons" contains subject matter categorized: Russia
  • Q:
    What year was the title "Fathers and Sons" first released to the public?
  • A:
    The work was first printed in February, 1862.
  • Q:
    How long is the book "Fathers and Sons"?
  • A:
    The work contains 261 pages.

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