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Virgin Soil

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
9 hours 18 minutes
ISBN
9781802561098
Published
17 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • social unrest
  • political upheaval
  • revolution
  • idealism
  • clandestine movement
  • social reform
  • provincial town
  • diverse characters
  • social classes
  • love

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Young Russia goes to the people and finds the people are not a speech. Hear Turgenev’s Virgin Soil unabridged in English: idealism in the provinces, love, conspiracy, the gap between pamphlet and hut. Nezhdanov and a countryside plot; a printing-press that cannot plough. A generation trying to cut a future and cutting itself. Listen to revolution as a feeling that dies in the weather. Turgenev’s last long look, spoken without a banner. Love that cannot wait for the future, and a class that will not be a chorus.

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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