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... course:
Novels
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Fathers and Sons Turgenev
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Drama
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
As You Like It, Henry V, Othello, Shak ... ... Two Lives -- the one entitled "Reading Turgenev", I decided I needed to read the three books the lovers were reading -- Fathers and Sons, First Love, and On the Eve, Filling in those missing pieces made Trevor's work all the more meaningful.
And then I set about filling in some of ... ... Niffenegger: ***1/2 STARTED 12/27/09, FINISHED 12/28/09
2. Vanity Fair by Thackeray
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
4. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
5. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ***** STARTED 12/31/09, FINISHED 1/1/10
7. The Reader by Ber ... ... yde
29. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
30. Through the Looking glass
31. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Scarlet Letter
34. Wuthering Heights
35. Jane Eyre
36. The Pit and the Pendulum
37. The Fall of the House of Usher
38. Emma
39. ... ... of the Pink Carnation. Also will dip into a new edition of John Milton and would like to reread Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. The bizarre collection may also inspire a short Charles Bukowski excursion. ... - darn no touchstone).
Master & Margarita is right up there for me too!
I also loved Crime and Punishment and Fathers and Sons. And War and Peace. Just read AK and loved it too. Have not read any Pushkin. Does Nabokov count? I loved Speak, Memory. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, it could replace Chalamov or Tchekov. And War and Peace is better than Anna Karenina. ... by Jean-Jacques Rouseeau
5. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
6. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
7. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
8. Latin Literature: an Anthology
9. Lord Jim: A Tale by Joseph Conrad
10. Makers of Rome by Plutarch ... by Jean-Jacques Rouseeau
5. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
6. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
7. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
8. Latin Literature: an Anthology
9. Lord Jim: A Tale by Joseph Conrad
10. Makers of Rome by Plutarch Fathers and Sons or Smoke - now those would make some fine salon reads!
polutropos: I'm hoping I still have the emails he sent (I can't believe I didn't print them and lockbox them immediately) but if I can locate them I'll post them here. ... my top 10, in no particular order:
1. Norwegian Wood
2. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
3. Of Mice and Men
4. Fathers and Sons
5. Kafka on the Shore
6. The Woman in the Dunes
7. Ender's Game
8. V
9. Dandelion Wine
10. La Nausee
Now, it seems that at present I ... ... on your choice, choosing by covers may be more dangerous than you think.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
V by Thomas Pynchon
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
...
2) Russian literary works
* Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
* The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
* Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak ... Paul II
71. Papal Wisdom
72. Go in Peace
73. The Way to Christ
Pope Benedict XVI
74. Jesus of Nazareth
75. The Fathers
76. The Apostles
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
77. Life of Christ
78. Life is Worth Living
Scott Hahn
79. Rome Sweet Home
80. Reasons to Believe anna_in_pdx in Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 26, 2009, 6:25pm) ... library such as Heidi, Little Women, Nancy Drew mysteries....
15: My "Russian Summer" when I read War and Peace, Fathers and Sons, The Brothers Karamazov and short stories by Gogol, as well as Madame Bovary and Lorna Doone, all off of my parents' bookshelves (they are English ... ... (fiction)
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz (non fiction)
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks (fantasy)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (fiction)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (fiction)
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (mystery)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovs ... ... by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker ... he is the better of the two. I also agree with All Quiet on the Western Front.
I would highly recommend the books Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, its a very modern book as far as 19th century Russians go and it's very easy and interesting to read. If you like more spiritual themes I ... 196. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 06/20/09
197. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 06/21/09
198. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 06/21/09
199. Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies 06/22/09
200. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 06/24/09
FILM: Shak ... 196. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 06/20/09
197. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 6/21/09
198. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 6/21/09 60. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev @ teelgee: Yes, that's a great Russian novel!
OT: Turgenevs Father and sons is amazing. If you enjoyed Brothers Karamazow you'll also like this one. ... ffmann
The Entail E.T.A. Hoffmann
Humiliated and Insulted Dostoevsky
Doge and Dogaressa E.T.A Hoffmann
New:
Fathers and Sons Turgenev
The Mines at Falun E.T.A Hoffmann
Oblomov Goncharov
Sarrasine Balzac
Russian Thinkers Isiah Berlin
4 ... Welcome, HyacinthLo. You have some wonderful books on your list. I've been meaning to reread Fathers and Sons for years - I read it in college but I suspect that like War and Peace I'd take more away from it now. I'm also interested in your take on Perfume, it seems to be one of those books ... ... of thinking in Russia, followed by Turgenev's incredible forshadowing of the nihilist/revolutionary type in Bazarov, in Fathers and Sons. Dostoevsky then develops this with the Underground Man and The Demons (beware corny joke with the touchstone). Bakunin's influence was also of course ... ... stories he was told about New Orleans before the Civil War. Still reading.
I also completed Death at La Fenice and Fathers and Sons. I have to run now, so I'll have more on those later. ... elephantango! I looked this one up and it sounds like something I'd enjoy, so I'll keep my eye out for it, hehe.
85. Fathers and Sons
86. Barboursville (a local history book)
6. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
This was an extremely enjoyable book. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, it tells of the difference between generations, representing the changes occurring in Russia at that time. Arkady comes home to his father from university, bringing his ... So this week, being somewhat busy, I spent on Turgenev, reading some contemporary criticism of Fathers and Sons, and another Hoffmann tale: The Mines of Falun. Two interesting things in particular came out of my Turgenev reading.
1. The independence of character. Turgenev in his ... I loved Fathers and Sons, especially the passage about the duel. ... accept even one principle on faith, no matter how much respect surrounds that principle."
That's me. I must read Fathers and Sons soon.
So Here is my review of Fathers and Sons
http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2009/03/fathers-and-sons-turgenev.html
and a thought here:
http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2009/03/fragment-153.html
(Is anyone reading these, I ask myself? )
Last night I read Isiah Berlin's essay on ... ... many puddles of vodka, I realised this is not right and have changed tack.
I intend now for the next few months to read Fathers and Sons then Oblomov and compare them with Humiliated and Insulted. The three books were written pretty much at the same time. I want to understand more the ... ... and Our Haunted Planet, for a total of TEN down, hehe. I'm also halfway through Dante's Inferno, and nearly that far in Fathers and Sons. I haven't read Fathers and Sons, but I generally love Russian literature. I need to check that book out. :)
March is also going to be a better month for me. :) Have a great day and good luck with your reading challenge.
--BJ ... fairly impressed and could pick out at least half a dozen including TAO TE CHING, THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN, FATHERS AND SONS and (I don't care who knows it) FLASHMAN. Under my personal selections I suggested Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor because ... ... call, and no where near as toffee-nosed as some other lists, but here' goes:
The Illiad
Don Quixote
Candide
Fathers and Sons
War and Peace
The Sound and the Fury
The Master and Margarita
Anna Karenina
Lolita
A Confederacy of Dunces
Of course Rivethead and P ... I too, loved Fathers and Sons. The self analysis during the duel, was alone worth it. Great Book. Go snotty young nihilists! Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
This was my first book of the year and I LOVED it! I went through it incredibly fast, and I'm pretty sure that I will be calling this book one of my favorites for years to come. ... all the books I read that don't fit nicely within my chosen categories.
Anyway, I am reading a few at the moment:
1. Fathers and Sons
2. Ellen G. White: Prophet of Destiny
And I'll pick up Our Haunted Planet and How to See and Read the Aura again soon. I'm hoping to finish those ... About halfway through Fathers and Sons, which is in the first edition, but not the second, I believe. So far, a good story! Ah Turgenev. Ah Fathers and Sons. He's been on my list of authors I must read for quite some time now. And I've run across so many lovely sites offering his texts for free (not sure about the quality of the translation). In any case, me sainted father called yesterday and I am receiving a . ... #10: I loved Fathers and Sons both the first and the second time I read it - hope you enjoy it too. ... last years before the Dodgers moved west.
When I finsih Moy Dick, I plan to continue a 19th century thread and pick up Fathers and Sons
I still need to write my review of House of Wits ... 1/9/09
2. The Hobbit -completed 1/22/09
3. Dante's Inferno -completed 3/6/09
4. Plum Spooky -completed 1/29/09
5. Fathers and Sons -completed 3/26/09
6. Plum Lucky -completed 1/14/09
7. Thinner -completed 1/10/09
8. Digging up Trouble -completed 3/29/09
9. Mayor of Casterbrid ... ... the Floss, George Eliot, 1990's
38. Great Expectations, Dickens, 1969
39. Silas Marner, George Eliot, 1960's
40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 2008
41. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, 1980's
42. Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky, 1968
42. *Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dic ... ... the development or decay of Kerouac's romantic spiritual quest. I have his two very last novels that I want to read now.
Fathers and Sons
I always liked Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, so I finally would like to get down to taking a look at The Nostromo.
Read Ballard's contained ... ... by Ian McEwan
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
6. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
7. Biographie de la faim by Amélie Nothomb
8. A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns ... ... {4/11}, Gun, with Occasional Music {5/20}
7. Turgenev: The Diary of a Superfluous Man {4/29}, First Love {5/12}, Fathers and Sons {6/21}
8. Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat {1/24}, Travels with Charley {3/25}, East of Eden {6/30}
9. McCarthy: Suttree {5/29}, Outer Dark {5/31}, The ... ... by Leo Tolstoy (July 2009)
--The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (March 2009)
--Hard Times by Charles Dickens
--Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenov
--The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
--The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
... ices:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All Quiet on the Western Front
Anna Karenina
A Confederacy of Dunces
Fathers and Sons
The Human Comedy
The Sound and the Fury
The Master and Margarita
Things Fall Apart
Don Quixote ... 1850-1970:
What is to be Done -Nikolai Chernyshevsky;
Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokov;
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev;
The Kreutzer Sonata - Lev Tolstoy;
Love of the Worker Bees -Alexandra Kollontai;
Into the Whirlwind - Eugenia Gins ... I am almost done with Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. I found it a bit tedious at the start, but some good character development has started me thinking that it will end well. I'm still in and I've read Fathers and Sons. How about The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa? Well, maybe I'm the only one still playing but I reckon we've waited long enough. How about Fathers and Sons? Titles referring to mothers or fathers:
My Father's Words by Charles Turk
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi
Are you My Mother? by Phillip D. Eastman
Tears of Mother Bear by Anne Margaret Lewis ... the end of the month.
So, I bought:
The Fencing Master
The Queen of Spades and other Stories
Exquisite Corpse
Fathers and Sons
and
American Indian Myths and Legends, but its for someone. 63. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - it is easy to see why this novel is considered a masterpiece of Russian literature. Written in the mid-19th century, it deals with intergenerational conflict (i read somewhere that originally, the title was something like "Parents and Children"), with ... thanks, alcottacre, i hope u find it in ur library.
now for my latest reads
63. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
64. A Heart So White by Javier Marias
65. Liquidation by Imre Kertész
66. Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez))
67. La ... ... Horses by Yukio Mishima
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
3. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
4. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
5. A Heart So White by Javier Marias ... by Vasily Grossman,
Dead Souls (Chichikov's Journey) by Nikolai Gogol,
Sketches from a Hunter's Album or Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev,
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov,
Hope against Hope (non-fiction) by Nadezhda Mandelstam.
If you ... ... hoped for, but it was still interesting. I am having a last Russian fling (again, for the time being) with Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Rudin, which are both very small. I recently finished The Way of All Flesh, and then read a fairly short book, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, which was decent but not amazing. ... tte
27. North and South
28. Adam Bede
29. The Woman in White
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Silas Marner
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Water-Babies
34. Crime and Punishment
35. The Last Chronicle of Barset
36. The Moonstone
37. Middlemarch
38. In a Glass Darkly
39 ... Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Night, Mother Kurt Vonnegut
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Finding My Father Rod McKuen Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
The Bourgeois Poet Karl Jay Shapiro
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Bush's Brain James Moore ... different ways, in the heads of the characters rather than in the events surrounding them.
Thanks for your comments on Fathers and Sons. I look forward to that read. blackdogbooks,
First of all I particularly like Russian literature. I thought Fathers and Sons was a well written treatise on the universal experience of individuation and identity development, as revealed in the relationships between father and son. Both perspectives came through clearly. T ... Just got a copy of Fathers and Sons as it was on some of my 100 best lists. What did you think?
Also, what did you think of The Road? Finished Fathers and Sons.......#170 53 - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
54 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides ... from Jerusalem with The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin to the Russian countryside with Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, and am currently standing with in Texas with The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. There's no place like home! ... on a quick trip to Koln and Stuttgart, Germany I finished The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. I just started The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. Two BookMooch books arrived via the USPS:
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott ... thousand - L. Pirandello
32. The picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
33. Crime and punishment - F. Dostojevski
34. Fathers and sons - Toergenjev
35. Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
36. Uncle Tom's cabin - H. Beecher Stowe
37. Wuthering heights - E. Bronte
38. Candide - Voltaire
... ...
Great Expectations and Hard Times
The Warden
Jayne Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Fathers and Sons
Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cerino and Billy Budd
Madame Bovary
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace and Master and Man ... ...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Frankenstein
The Last of the Mohicans (long time ago)
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal (long ago)
Dr. Jeky ... ... The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
Sierra Nevada Natural History Tracy I. Storer
The Best of Simple Langston Hughes
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King
Honey, Hush! African American Humor Daryl Cumber Dance
Frommer's Sweden My favourite Russian novel would be a three-way tie between A Hero of Our Time, The Master and Margarita and Fathers and Sons. If I was forced to choose one book, I think it would be the Lermontov by a short head, but over his career, probably Lev Tolstoy as a novelist. In short fiction, ... In Fathers and Sons Turgenev addresses the generational differences in oppositional politics – in this particular case the fathers were the aristocratic liberals (of their age) and the sons were nihilist youth, but the particulars do not matter – the novel is to be read as a novel of ideas – ... #81
Dim memory recalls reading and enjoying Turgenev some quarter century ago. I checked my rotation schedule, and Fathers and Sons should come up for a rereading in 2083. I'll let you know then what I think. I was hoping for some statement of personal relevance from you in the meantime.
... ... point that I'm trying to make - we shouldn't tolerate the substitution of emotion for rational thought.
Makifat: read Fathers and Sons and draw your own conclusions.
BGP: read Snow, a re-working of Turgenev's Smoke - very interesting parallels, there. ... like I was forcing myself to read and not enjoying it at all. It's a shame, I know so many people who like it. I do love Fathers and Sons though. ... by Jorge Luis Borges
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Non-Fiction:
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
The Outsid ... At the moment I'm working on Fathers and Sons and The Idiot for school. The Idiot is a reread for me and I love it. I'm liking Fathers and Sons too though, a lot more than I expected to. On my own I'm reading The Old Curiosity Shop, although I'm finding I don't have a lot of time to devote to ... ... Avatar by Jacqueline Carey, which is a reread that I started a while ago and got distracted from, and am skimming Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev for a class since I read it only a year ago. ... I don't like depressing books, even if they're not that "difficult". I don't object to tragedy (I got through Turgenev's Fathers and Sons OK), but some authors should just get it out of their system and onto the paper, then burn the manuscript and not burden the rest of us with their gloom! Gi ... ... in Russian literature affect the status of scientific discourse in general (Chernyshevsky, What is to be done?; Turgenev, Father's and Sons; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Chekhov, Stories)
What is to be said about the integration of science and the intelligentsia (Kropo ... The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
The Age of the Fathers by William Bright
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Sons and Lovers by D. H.Lawrence
Lovers and Liars by Sally Beauman ... With Father by Clarence Day
Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
Shadow Child by Beth Powning
AND
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev From my LT only:
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
The Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill
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Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov ... writing The Cossacks, and soon to begin work on War and Peace. Turgenev's best work was almost behind him, but his Fathers and Sons, which came out in 1862, created a firestorm and served to galvanize and focus all of the debates mentioned above. The book itself is really rather neutral ... Mother Courage by Bertold Brecht
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Could you clarify if the first line was just 'When father was a kid'
(I'm only guessing but could it be Fathers and sons by Turgenev?). Many years since I read it. ...
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Turgenev Fathers and Sons
For pure character development, which to some nineteenth century writers was a raison d'etre try
Austen Pride and Prejudice, Emma
Nineteen ... ... criticised was that he was seen to siding with non-Russian ideas, as he spent much of his adulthood living abroad. (Fathers and Sons was not well-received in Russia when first published but was very successful elsewhere in Europe). ... of Dostoevksy, though some of that was doubtless amplified for satirical or socratic purposes. But Turgenev's Bazarov in Fathers and Sons is evidently a pretty accurate portrait of some of the young radicals around at the time he, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were writing, and the sporadic utter ... ... Brothers Karamazov, but some would vote for Crime and Punishment or the Idiot. Turgenev's most famous novel is Fathers and Sons, but my favorites are the Sportsmen's Sketches aka Sketches from a Hunter's Album which were very popular in Russia and contributed to the freeing of the ... ... constance garnett and my favorites are sportsman's sketches which is said to have led to the emancipation of the serfs, fathers and sons, and spring torrents. However, Rudin and On the Eve are worth reading also to get a sense of his political attitudes. he had an illegitimate ... ... stuff I thought too. I read a lot of Turgenev about 10 years ago, and must also highly recommend his fine novel Fathers and Sons as well. Re: Re-reading Turgenev. I think I'm going to re-start with Fathers and Sons. From memory, it moved me tears. I read all these Russian and French authors in my teens and early twenties. Definitely time to dust them off.
I am still struggling through The Brothers Karamazov - fifteen years ... #3 Hera,
I've read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and enjoyed it, and it looks like you have a copy of it in your library, so I suggest you give that one a go if you haven't already attempted it! ...
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Last- An unshared book I just picked up on clearance from Amazon, Wolfwarrior by Bryan Foster There is an analysis of Fathers and Sons in Lectures on Russian Literature. It is a detailed literary analysis, interesting but difficult to boil down to a couple of lines. Elsewhere in the book, he lists the four greatest prose writers in Russian (in order) as - Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov & Turgen ... ... find Russian solutions to domestic problems.
What seems incredible now is, that Russian critics of the time did not like Fathers and Sons. My GCSE reading list (1986-88, when I was 14-16) included: Sons and Lovers, Fathers and Sons, Bliss, Macbeth, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Collected poems by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Lord of the Flies, Hard Times, ...
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