Virgin Soil
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This overlooked masterpiece is the biggest and most ambitious of Turgenev's works. A liberal-spirited and humane man, he had misgivings for the future of his country which he voiced in this story of two young people, torn between love and politics. Foremost a love story, this rich and complex book is also a biting, bitterly funny social satire that questions the place of happiness in a political world.
About this Author
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was born into a wealthy family and educated at the university of Moscow and St. Petersburg. He stands with Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy as one of the masters of Russian literature. Among his famous works are the no
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Every class of society, every type of character, every degree of fortune, every phase of manners, passes through his hands; his imagination claims its property equally, in town and country, among rich and poor, among wise people and idiots, dilettanti and peasants, the tragic and the joyous, the probable and the grotesque. He has an eye for all our passions and a deeply sympathetic sense of the wonderful complexity of our souls.
-- Henry James
Turgenev's Russia is but a canvas on which the incomparable artist of humanity lays his colours and his forms in the great light and free air of the world....All his creations, fortunate and unfortunate, oppressed and oppressors, are human beings, not strange beasts in a menagerie or damned souls knocking themselves out in the stuffy darkness of mystical contradictions. They are human beings, fit to live, fit to suffer, fit to struggle, fit to win, fit to lose, in the endless and inspiring game of pursuing from day to day the ever-receding future.
-- Joseph Conrad
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