It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler&s 75th birthday Xavier March a detective of the Kriminalpolizei is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin&s most prestigious suburb As March discovers the identity of the body he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich & with the Gestapo just one step behind March together with an American journalist is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
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Ivan Turgenev&s Fathers & Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatened the state This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by Peter Carson with an introduction by Rosamund Bartlett & an afterword by Tatyana Tolstaya Returning home after years away at university Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father & uncle But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate
- his outspoken nihilist views & his scathing criticisms of the older men expose the growing distance between Arkady & his father & when Bazarov visits his own doting but old-fashioned parents his disdainful rejection of traditional Russian life causes even further distress In Fathers & Sons Turgeneve created a beautifully-drawn & highly influential portrayal of the clash between generations at a time just before the end of serfdom when the refined yet vanishing landowning class was being overturned by a brash new breed that strove to change the world Peter Carson&s elegant naturalistic new translation brings Turgenev&s masterpiece to life for a new generation of readers In her introduction Rosamund Bartlett discusses the novel&s subtle characterisation & the immense social changes that took place in the 1850s Russia of Fathers & Sons This edition also

Includes:: a chronology suggested further reading & notes If you enjoyed Fathers & Sons you might like Leo Tolstoy&s The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories also available in Penguin Classics & One of the first Russian novels to be translated for a wider European audience It is a difficult art in this superb new version Peter Carson has succeeded splendidly& Michael Binyon The Times& If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying Turgenev Carson is probably the best& Donald Rayfield The Times Literary Supplement


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& Aristocracy liberalism progress principlesuseless words! A Russian doesn&t need them& This humane moving masterpiece of families love duels heartache failure & the clash between generations caused a scandal in nineteenth-century Russia with its portrayal of youthful nihilism A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin&s original covers ...

With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly University of Reading Translated by CJ Hogarth Fathers & Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels & has long been acclaimed as Turgenev&s finest work It is a political novel set in a domestic context with a universal theme the generational divide between fathers & sons Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social & political reform the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies & their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist & believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state As the novel develops Bazarov&s political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional & private concerns & his end is a tragic failure The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862 & this a year later drove Turgenev from Russia ...

Turgenev&s masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh outspoken & exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862 The controversial portrait of Bazarov the energetic cynical & self-assured nihilist& who repudiates the romanticism of his elders shook Russian society Indeed the image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities & prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion & is especially potent in the modern era This new translation specially commissioned for the World&s Classics is the first to draw on Turgenev&s working manuscript which only came to light in 1988 ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Having finally accepted that his daughter is married Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) has now to deal with the news that she is pregnant The news leads to a dispute between both the maternal & paternal grandparents A sequel to Father Of The Bride which also starred Spencer Tracy & Joan Bennett Actors Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor Don Taylor Billie Burke Directors Vincente Minnelli Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ray Winstone (44 Inch Chest; Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull) gives one of his best most personal performances to date as a father who has to track down the truth about his daugher Winstone plays a solicitor in a small English town who sends his daughter off to university At first everything seems to be going well but she turns increasingly erratic causing her father to suspect that something is wrong When a tragedy occurs he must find the man who betrayed his daughter & set things right ...

Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son a woman contacts a pair of old flames & tells each that he's the boy's father setting in motion a forced-buddy on-the-road romp Billy Crystal & Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce Les Comperes ...

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