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Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev

Virgin Soil

Ivan Turgenev

317 pages first pub 1877 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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Virgin Soil is ideal for readers who appreciate reflective, politically charged narratives that explore the tension between personal aspirations and societal constraints through rich, complex storytelling.

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Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people ...

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