Fathers and Children (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Fathers and Children is Turgenevs best known work and possibly the first truly modern Russian novel.Yevgeny Bazarov, a young medical student and nihilist, challenges the old order of his fathers generation, rejecting any authority or faith not based on science and experience.When Yevegeny falls victim to the emotional pains of his unrequited love for the alluring yet capricious Anna Odintsovaand then to an accidental exposure to typhushe comes face to face with forces beyond philosophical control.