This is an auction for FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev.

This is a deluxe hardback edition with gold-blocked pages, published by the Franklin Library (US).

Translated by Constance Garnett.

Illustrated by Elaine Raphael & Don Bolognese.

From Wikipedia:

"Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, one of his best-known works. Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Marino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called "nihilism" which the young men advocate. Nikolai feels awkward with his son at home, partially because Arkady's views have dated his own beliefs, and partially because he has taken a servant, Fenichka, into his house to live with him and has already had a son by her. The two young men remain at Marino for a short time, then decide to visit a relative of Arkady's in a neighboring province. There they observe the local gentry and meet Madame Odintsova, an elegant woman of independent means who invites them to spend a few days at her estate, Nikolskoe..."

More on Wikipedia.

Hardback 1984.

247 pages.

New condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.