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Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1862
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 250

A young nihilist who believes in nothing but science visits the estates of his friend's gentle elders, scandalises them, falls unwillingly in love, and dies of a careless infection.

A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith.
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev

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