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Rudin

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
142 pages
ISBN
9781910150016
Published
15 December 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • human nature
  • intellectual ideals
  • disillusionment
  • love
  • societal norms
  • conflicts
  • relationships
  • idealism
  • societal constraints
  • personal ambition

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Description

Dmitry Rudin dazzles a country house with talk, wins Natalya, then cannot act when love demands a plan. He drifts as a man of ideas without grip, and the story closes with his death on the Paris barricades. Ideals that cost a life.

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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