Description - Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev’s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to “go to the people” by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside’s locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov – employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina – the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin.
Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev’s most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author’s place in the West as Russia’s foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home – culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely a month after it was published.
Buy Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Available to order, ships in 10-12 business days
A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
