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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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Author Biography

Name: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Birth Date: November 9, 1818
Death Date: September 3, 1883
Place of Birth: Orel Province, Russia
Place of Death: Bougival, France
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, dramatist, writer

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Biography of Ivan Turgenev
14826 words, approx. 49.4 pages
Henry James--friend, colleague, and student--said of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev that he was "in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist's novelist, an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable, and ineradicably established." Turgenev himself was m...
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Biography of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
2443 words, approx. 8.1 pages
The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a founder of the Russian realistic novel. He ranks as one of the greatest stylists in the Russian language. The life of Ivan Turgenev is woven like a bright...
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Biography of Ivan Turgenev
2129 words, approx. 7.1 pages
Although his most enduring work is the novel Fathers and Sons, Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev changed the lives of Russian serfs with his 1852 book Zapiski okhotnika, much as American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe did the lives of America's black sl...


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Fathers and Sons Summary
3,733 words, approx. 12 pages
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Born to a wealthy and aristocratic family in the Russian province of Orel, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83) was educated in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, before going on to study philosophy at the University...
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Fathers and Sons Information
1,766 words, approx. 6 pages
<i>Fathers and Sons</i> is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети (Ottsy i Deti), which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in...


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The Orange County Register
Game site packs punch // A father and son team up to launch GameAlmighty, an online adventure with comics-inspired graphics
2/27/2007: 574 words, approx. 2 pages
When Christiaan Allebest was a boy, he wanted to be Batman because the superhero was an ordinary person who did extraordinary things.Allebest, now 31, grew up to become a technology writer. But he continued to dream of super adventures. With ideas brewing, he quit his...
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AP News
Father-son distillers part of tradition
6/16/2007: 1,163 words, approx. 4 pages
The small group of men responsible for making Kentucky bourbons think of themselves as a fraternity, where friendships seem as enduring as whiskey recipes. At some distilleries, those bonds are even tighter _ connecting fathers and sons.At Heaven Hill Distilleries, Craig Beam traces some of...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Nihilism in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
1,998 words, approx. 7 pages
Ivan Turgenev's feelings about Nihilism are displayed through the book "Fathers and Sons" and are examined in this essay. In particular, Turgenev did not mean for the tern "nihilists" to classify only those who believed in nothing, but he used it as a generalization for all the radicals of the day. By showing the faultiness of the actual philosophy of nihilism Turgenev was bashing all anarchistic, communist, abolitionist and other similar movements.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Relationships in Fathers and Sons
854 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the novel, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. This essay is about the intricate relationship between fathers and sons in the book and in the 20th century.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Immunity to Nihilism in Turgenev's "fathers and Sons"
843 words, approx. 3 pages
A study of Russian nihilism as portrayed by Turgenev in "Fathers and Sons." Ivan Turgenev's novel, presents a dichotomy; he places two generations face to face, and forces them to encounter Bazarov, a very influential character with revolutionary ideas. Perhaps the most interesting result of this is seeing which characters, or which members of a generation, are won over by his ideas and join his side.
 


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