Fathers and Sons
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
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Tradition and Progress
Nature vs. Materialism
Love vs. Nihilism
Generational Conflict
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Arkady Nikolayevich Kirsanov
Yevgeny Vassilyich Bazarov
Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov
Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov
Madame Anna Sergeyevna Odintsov
Katya Odintsov
Fedosya Nikolayevna (Fenichka)
Vassily Ivanych Bazarov
Arina Vlassyevna Bazarov
Victor Sitnikov
Masha Prepolovensky
Princess R. (Nellie)
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Fathers and Sons
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Ivan Turgenev
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Themes
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Tradition and Progress
Nature vs. Materialism
Love vs. Nihilism
Generational Conflict
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Arkady Nikolayevich Kirsanov
Yevgeny Vassilyich Bazarov
Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov
Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov
Madame Anna Sergeyevna Odintsov
Katya Odintsov
Fedosya Nikolayevna (Fenichka)
Vassily Ivanych Bazarov
Arina Vlassyevna Bazarov
Victor Sitnikov
Masha Prepolovensky
Princess R. (Nellie)
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Nihilism
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Nature
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Nihilism
The nihilist movement (in Latin,
nihil
means “nothing”) was a Russian philosophical movement that picked up steam in the 1860s, and the term was popularized by
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