Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A man tells the disastrous story of his first love.

"Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Children is a masterpiece not only of the nineteenth century but of the whole of Russian literature, a book full to bursting with life. It is a novel about the relations between the young and the old, about love, families, politics, religion, about strong beliefs and heated disagreements, illness and death. It is about the clash between liberals and conservatives, revolutionaries and reactionaries. At the time of its publication...

"In this book you will read the touching, tender and unusually lyrical story "Asya", "First Love", as well as a charming story "Spring water", dedicated to the always worrying Turgenev, about acquisition and loss of true love and its collision with the "dark" irrational passion ..." -- cataloger's rough translation of cover.

The beautiful Natalya is married to Arkadi, a rich but older landowner. Bored with her life, she catches the eye of the handsome Mikhail. Might this flirtation develop into something more? Not once the young, attractive Aleksei arrives as tutor to Natalya's son. Natalya falls for Aleksei, but so does her teenage step-daughter Vera. Suddenly Natalia's seemingly idyllic life has turned into a complex web of unrequited love, guilt, lust and jealousy....

An exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story.