Publisher's Synopsis
Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 - September 3 [O.S. August 22] 1883) was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as a major work of 19thcentury fiction.