In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.
A new translation of Turgenev's most important novel, portraying a new type of hero, a "nihilist," who would represent the values of the younger generation, revealing the full breadth of 19th century Russia.
Examines life in the country estates, cities, palaces, peasant cottages, and manor houses of Romanov Russia, and features an overview and timeline of the years between 1696 and 1917.
A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.
