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Virgin Soil

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
260 pages
ISBN
9781909904989
Published
15 December 2013
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. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil is idealism in the provinces: love, conspiracy, the gap between the pamphlet and the hut. A generation trying to plough a future, and cutting itself. Nezhdanov and the countryside plot: love, a printing press, a class that will not be a chorus. Turgenev’s last long look at revolution as a feeling that dies in the weather. A printing-press that cannot plough, and a love that cannot wait for the future.

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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