Publisher's Synopsis
1920. Russian author, deemed the foremost stylist in Russian literature, Turgenev's novels, poems and plays are characterized by elegant craftsmanship, lucidity and a liberal, balanced point of view. Considered his masterpiece, in Fathers and Sons, Bazarov, the hero of the novel, is an idealistic young radical, a commoner and a university student, dedicated to universal freedom and destined for tragedy in his own life.