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Virgin Soil

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

  • 309 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1877
  • 49 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

This book - a love story, a devastating and bitterly funny social satire, and , perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside - is a tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.

  • Revolutionaries
  • Political
  • Soviet union, history
  • Social life and customs
  • Social conditions
  • Country homes

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3 About Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

1818–1883

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

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