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Rudin

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
4 hours 29 minutes
ISBN
9781802561128
Published
18 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • human nature
  • intellectual ideals
  • disillusionment
  • love
  • societal norms
  • conflicts
  • relationships
  • idealism
  • societal constraints
  • personal ambition

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Rudin’s brilliant speech wins Natalya and then fails her when courage is required; the end finds him dying on the barricades. Spoken as Turgenev when eloquence arrives without the will to stay.

Author

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) grew up on a wealthy Russian estate, studied at the universities of Moscow, St Petersburg, and Berlin, and later settled largely in France. A Sportsman's Sketches revealed the intelligence and dignity of serfs through apparently effortless country scenes; Fathers and Sons caught the rift between liberal parents and their impatient, nihilist heirs.

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