Fathers and Sons (Annotated‪)‬

Fathers and Sons, also translated more literally as Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, one of his best-known works.


Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Marino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called "nihilism" which the young men advocate.

This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  This book is also annotated, with additional information about the book and Ivan Turgenev, including an overview, story, characters, historical context, adaptations, biographical and bibliographical information.